fix: finish selecing a linux distro post
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### KDE
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KDE is probably your best choice as a beginner, as it, by default, works *similarly* to Windows.
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It also has a great implementation of many newer features and is *HIGHLY* customizable.
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This means that you can make KDE conform to your workflow and not the other way round.
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### GNOME
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GNOME is a highly opinionated user interface, meaning that by default it is barely customizable and you really should use the default setup
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(maybe adding a single extension to add a system tray - yes, it really doesn't have that).
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What you get in return is a highly polished system that is a bit macOS-esque, but really, what macOS should have been.
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Its workflow is unique, and once you have adapted to it, you can get quite a lot quicker at using a PC than with a Windows-style layout.
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### Cinnamon
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This is the default user interface of Linux Mint. If you want to use this user interface, I would *highly* suggest going with Linux Mint, as it is best integrated there.
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However, since it has only been released as stable in December 2025, it still suffers from some teething problems most new software does, but it's very impressive and blazingly fast
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### Xfce
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Xfce is an older-style user interface, quite well-known for its low resource usage.
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It by default looks very dated and so is its UI concept, but you may like it, as it is also visually highly customizable and comes by default with the (IMO)
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best graphical file manager, Thunar and a great terminal emulator.
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## Picking the distribution
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@@ -87,3 +98,4 @@ Using the DE you picked above and some other aspects, these are my distro recomm
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| CachyOS | Intermediates / Beginners | Arch | Very fast, up-to-date, excellent docs, great community, all DEs & WMs | Arch base (thus a bit more challenging), likely a bit less stable than others on this list | All |
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| Fedora | Beginners / Intermediates | Fedora (technically RHEL, but it's complicated) | Fast, stable, mostly up-to-date, great community, spins for many DEs | Package manager a bit slow, switching desktops a bit of a pain | KDE, GNOME, others (but a bit of a pain) |
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| Arch | Intermediate / Advanced | Arch | The best distribution out there (in my objective opinion), minimal by design, can be very reliable if you know what you're doing, best docs, all DEs & WMs, very up-to-date, very flexible | harder than others to install, can really bite you | All |
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| EndeavourOS | Beginner / Intermediate | Arch | Like arch, but pre-configured | Arch base | All here |
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