Any good Debian-based OS for a laptop?

I’m planning to put Debian-based operating system onto my Surface Laptop Gen 1, following the guide (linux-surface). Any good Debian-based Linux recommendations? For now I’m considering AntiX (lightweight debian) and normal Debian.

P.S. I’ve installed pure Debian, as everyone suggests. Thanks for advice!

CuttingBoard,

MX

rotopenguin,
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How lightweight do you really need to go? I have a Lenovo “barely worth calling a chromebook” with 4GB/64GB/2 core N4000. It’s fine with Gnome on Bookworm.

KindaABigDyl,
@KindaABigDyl@programming.dev avatar

Debian

spicytuna62,
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Can confirm. I use Debian on a laptop and it’s great.

jaagruk,

MX Linux

jonwyattphillips,

Check out projectbluefin.io, the developer experience has lots of goodies built in.

It’s a immutable/atomic fedora silverblue spin based on cloud native principles.

barsquid,

I agree with you but I assume they want Debian for a reason.

jonwyattphillips,

distrobox enter debian-toolbox :)

electric_nan,

Linux Mint Debian Edition.

Sammy,
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My Son, SpiralLinux, is the neatest lil package of Debian you could ever want. It comes with all the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi drivers I need and it actually has an installer (Calamari’s I think?) that’s efficient and easy to understand.

Other than that-…. Uuuuhhhhh have you tried Hanna Montana OS?

fin,

Hannah Montana Linux – a live Linux distribution based on Kubuntu with a Hannah Montana theme. It has been created to “attract young users to Linux”.

Thanks that’s attractive

Meowie_Gamer,
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Just use debian

drspod,

You could try VanillaOS 2.0 Beta which is a Debian-based immutable distro, planned for final release later this year.

pmk,

Which features are you looking for beyond what can be done on Debian?

fin,

Lightweight and maybe has some “cool features”

pmk,

Maybe Debian with a wm? I like cwm, but there are many to choose from. You can add pretty much any cool feature on top.

Vivendi,

Debian is the lightest derivative of Debian

The installer outright gives you the option out of many different desktop environments and use cases and if you don’t like to install a desktop you can install base system debian that’s literally just a terminal environment and nothing else

yak,
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If you want Debian, just install Debian.

Maybe if you’re into wm setups and you’d like to not have to do everything from scratch you can install Bunsenlabs instead.

It’s just plain Debian with preconfigured Openox, that’s all.

fin,

Never heard of Bunsenlabs. It looks good!

yak,
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It is :)

There’s a very useful and friendly forum at forums.bunsenlabs.org and it is very easy to replace openbox with any other wm of your choice, as long as you’re fine with X11.

banazir,
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Just go with Debian.

veer66,

Maybe Sparky Linux …

Normally, I use Debian. However, Debian 12 installer didn’t work on my Acer Extensa 💻. So I installed Sparky Linux, and it works.

ElectronBadger,
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Debian Testing. My daily driver since… a long time :)

SeikoAlpinist,

Debian.

If you want to try something different, maybe LMDE.

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