[xubuntu-users] Another road

[Wiebe van der Worp]

On 11/30/24 14:18, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 at 19:40, Wiebe van der Worp <w at vanderworp.org> wrote:
>>
>> I've switched to Debian+XFCE
> 
> Plain straight version, or Xebian?

Debian net-installer and choosing XFCE instead of Gnome.

> I have recently been evaluating MX Linux (which again is Debian +
> Xfce, but with more helpful tools, smaller and faster) and Alpine
> Linux with Xfce.
> 
> MX is much easier than Debian and it's faster too.
> 
> Alpine is tiny. It takes about as much space on disk as Ubuntu takes
> RAM, and it boots in seconds even on a Core 2 Duo... but quite a lot
> of normal modern Linux things do not work.

I have not considered those options to be honest. However, there are no 
complaints about speed of Debian from my side. Tuning XFCE is a bit odd, 
but I ended up with exactly the same look and feel as Xubuntu. I have to 
migrate VirtualBox to KVM in time but found proper Debian support for 
the meantime. No snaps...What a relief! It feels less bloated someway. 
For example, Firefox and Thunderbird are ESR and that is fine with me.