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Distro for 2013 iMac

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As per title, have you experienced any distro on this device? Currently torn between mint/Debian or just vanilla Debian

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Concerning the compatibility, there shouldn’t be a difference between LMDE and Debian. The choice of the Desktop environment depends on your personal favour. As Mac user, you probably tend towards Gnome which can be installed during the setup of Debian, not LMDE. However, as I don’t know about the performance of the 2013 iMac, maybe Cinnamon or Mate are a better choice.

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Yeah I tend to Gnome but was thinking to give this to the wife that is a windows gal ಥ_ಥ she might be better off with cinnamon

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If she’s used to Windows, KDE might be a better choice. It runs well on my 2012 Intel i3 dual core, 8GB RAM laptop.

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Last time I tried KDE was like 2013… it has been a long time. How does it play with flatpacks designed for gnome?

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