Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.
2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.
3. Avoid repetitive topics.
4. This is not a search engine
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions or identify objects. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.
There are a number of content specific communities with subject matter experts who can help you.
Some other communities to consider before posting:
5. Keep it dull. If it puts us to sleep, it’s on the right track. Examples of likely not dull: jokes, gross stuff (including toes), politics, religion, royalty, illness or injury, killing things for fun, or promotional content. Feel free to post these elsewhere.
6. No hate speech, sexism, or bullying No sexism, hate speech, degrading or excessively foul language, or other harmful language. No othering or dehumanizing of anyone or negativity towards any gender identity.
7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with "So" - starting a post with pointless phrases, like "I hope this is allowed" or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.
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For the comment about Desktop Environment, you have a lot of options and for new penguins, that choice probably matters more than the actual distribution.
The two biggest are KDE and Gnome. Both come with a ton of applications (like calculator, image viewer, file browser, maybe a browser and email client. Can be all sorts of stuff). KDE looks more like Windows, Gnome looks more like MacOS, but both are pretty customizable so you can make them look more or less how you want.
Oh interesting, I'd figured I'd just stick with the default environment but I suppose I could absolutely look around for ones that play nicely with some beginners distro like Mint.
Thanks!
When I installed Debian froma USB drive, it gave me the choice of, I think, six desktop environments! Not all distributions give you a choice on install, and most will let you switch without too much trouble. I'm sure there are some that are biuilt around a particular DE, though.
A Live USB with Debian on it should have several options, and I think you can pick all of them. When you have multiple installed, it lets you switch on the login screen.
Looks like your choices on a Debian live installer will be:
[ ] GNOME [ ] Xfce [ ] KDE Plasma [ ] Cinnamon [ ] MATE [ ] LXDE [ ] LXQt