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I'm getting a Chromebook, and, obviously, I'd rather wget all my webpages before I use chrome as my main os. so any recommendations for distros? I want a good, smooth ui, kinda like what windows was aiming for but so terribly messed up. I want apt package manager, and I wouldn't mind pentesting tools, and it has to be light enough to use on a computer with 4gb ram and 16gb ssd. I assume it's implied with linux, but I want one that's generally consider to be secure. I plan to run android studio (I expect it to be slower than a commodore 64 running windows 10), eclipse, gcc, if that helps. any suggestions? thanks!

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  • 0
    7y
    @linux @linuxxx @linuxer4fun any ideas?
  • 1
    7y
    Kali
  • 0
    7y
    @MatiasConTilde kali seems fairly clunky. does kali light look good?
  • 5
    7y
    @calmyourtities please don't use Kali, it was a joke
  • 3
    7y
    Debian
  • 0
    7y
    as of now, zorin looks to be the best for me. has anyone tried it?
  • 1
    7y
    good looking, pretty fast, Ubuntu-based, not windows-like but Mac-like.
    ...
    elementaryOS
    .
    Try it, see if you like it for power usage. For general usage this is surely what I recommend.
  • 1
    7y
    Any distro will be light if you strip it down yourself. I'd still prefer arch since you don't have to uninstall useless packages
  • 1
    7y
    @MatiasConTilde Why not? Its a solid system which works well.

    If you can put any Linux distro onto it I'd go with Mint or Arch (manjaro maybe?)
  • 1
    7y
    Zorin os.
    Deepin was nice too, but its discontinued :/
  • 1
    7y
    @Jop- I know, but it doesn't feel like linux at all. just a web browser, a weird file manager, the fucking terminal is in a web browser, jesus christ.
  • 0
    7y
    @linuxer4fun yup 👍, it looks really good. I haven't heard anything bad either. do you use it?
  • 2
    7y
    GalliumOS is specifically made for chrome books. if your device is supported, it'll work out of the box! (and also optimize for keyboard and power efficiency)

    when I was using it (about a year ago) there was a pretty active community of maintainers as well and that's always good.
  • 1
    7y
    @balte thanks! I'll check it out
  • 1
    7y
    @calmyourtities no... but i certainly will never ever use ubuntu again
  • 2
    7y
    I am currently using chrome os with:

    Tmux
    Links
    Vim
    Mdp
    Python3
    And other tools

    It's pretty good for almost everything

    (If your Chromebook supports legacy boot and usb boot, you can install arch)
  • 0
    7y
    I’ve been using mint over the past week and it’s glorious. I didn’t think that I’d like it as much as I do.
    Great looking UI, good driver support out of the box and a great community surrounding it.

    I still use windows and macOS, but mint is super nice for what I want.
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