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Ask HN: Kubuntu or Debian+KDE?
2 by JonathanBeuys | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I am currently in the market for a new Linux distro and I would like to hear the HN community's take on it. I have been thinking about choosing Kuduntu or Debian+KDE. I find it really hard to come up with any pros and cons. I came up with this solution: They probably give me the same experience, but since with Kubuntu there are 3 vendors involved (updates travel from Debian to Ubuntu to KDE) and for Debian+KDE only one vendor is involved (Debian), Debian+KDE is probably leaner and will make less problems. Any Hacker News grade thoughts on this? These are the two installers I have in mind: "debian-live-11.5.0-amd64-kde+nonfree.iso" from this page: https://ift.tt/RPBuXWU Or "Kubuntu 22.04.1 LTS" from this page: https://ift.tt/7Anrqig My idea is to install only the terminal version and then do: apt install kde-plasma-desktop So I don't get Kmail and the other KDE applications. I don't need those as I use Firefox and Thunderbird.