Suggestion for Linux Distro (from PSA: Linux vulnerability)

Dan Stromberg drsalists at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 00:37:54 EST 2022


On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 5:04 AM Marco Sulla <Marco.Sulla.Python at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 at 04:50, Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 3/9/22 13:05, Marco Sulla wrote:
> > > So my laziness pays. I use only LTS distros, and I update only when
> > > there are security updates.
> > > PS: any suggestions for a new LTS distro? My Lubuntu is reaching its
> > > end-of-life. I prefer lightweight debian-like distros.
> >
> > Maybe Debian itself?
>
> I tried Debian on a VM, but I found it too much basical. A little
> example: it does not have the shortcut ctrl+alt+t to open a terminal
> that Ubuntu has. I'm quite sure it's simple to add, but I'm starting
> to be old and lazy...
>
That's an attribute of your desktop environment, not the Linux distribution.

EG: I'm using Debian with Cinnamon, which does support ctrl-alt-t.

Some folks say the desktop environment matters more than the distribution,
when choosing what OS to install.


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