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I need an operating system more customisable than Ubuntu

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GN
Gary Newell
Aug 19, 2013

I spend quite a lot of time reading the pages at Reddit and one of the most common questions in the /r/linux4noobs subreddit is “Which distro should I use?”.

Today I am going to answer the following request by referring back to my experience with each of the distributions I have tried in the past 2 years.

GN

Gary Newell

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