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 ====== About ====== ====== About ======
-We are two dudes who have been fascinated with computers and technology since the beginning of the 1990s. We are long time Windows users since Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, but since the late 1990s/early 2000s we played with Linux (at the time it was Fedora, DebianSlackwareMandriva and SuSe). But it was only flirt, since at that time gaming and serious video/photo editing was more than limiting on Linux, so we went back to Windows. Sporadically we would try out certain distros (Debian, Ubuntu or +have been fascinated with computers and technology since the beginning of the 1990s. I am a long time Windows user, since Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, but since the early 2000s played with Linux (at the time it was Fedora CoreUbuntuLibranet, and a few other obscure ones). But it was always for short period of time, since at that time gaming and serious video/photo editing was more than limited on Linux, so went quickly back to Windows every time I tried it\\ 
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 +Sporadically, I would try out certain distros (Debian, Ubuntu or Mint), but nothing serious nor for a really long time. Until late August 2019. It all started almost as a joke, it was initiated mostly because of my dissatisfaction with data mining, increasing surveillance and lack of privacy in Windows 10.\\ 
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 +So I am trying, once again, a total switch from Windows to Linux. First, I chose Linux Mint, as it is a quite newbie friendly, and it is pretty stable. Later, I moved to Ubuntu MATE, and Debian (both MATE and Cinnamon).  
 +Also, I am not a programmer, and do not wish to compile files nor do I want to use hours and days tweaking codes and lines in a terminal or vim. I just want to use my machines for whatever I want to use them for (mostly writing, gaming, browsing, video editing). I felt that Linux Mint fitted perfectly my requirements.  However, since the beginning of my latest Linux journey I have tried many different ditributions, and currently I am using Devuan, which is a forked Debian project, but without the infamous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd|systemd]]. I hope to make this switch permanently this time, and therefore to make things easier for myself and other newcomers, I created this Debian Linux Handbook.  
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 +//(Feb 2023)//: Shifted back to Debian. It just works. Yes, it uses systemd, but it works. \\ 
 +//(16 Sep 2022)//: I have switched from Debian Testing to [[http://devuan.org|Devuan]] (Chimaera) on my main machine. I want to see if lack of systemd. will improve performance (especially shutdown time). \\ 
 +//(29 Jan 2022)//: I have switched from Ubuntu MATE to Debian 11 Stable on January 19, 2022 on my main machine, and thus is also most tips in this handbook.  \\ 
 +//(12 Apr 2020)//: I got a ThinkPad T450, so I installed Debian Sid on it. A wonderful distro. Use it primarily for browsing, writing and such. \\ 
 +//(27 Aug 2019)//: Installed Linux Mint 19.2 Cinnamon. Bye bye, Windows 7. \\ 
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 +Enjoy!\\ 
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 +[[Avdibeg's apps|I use these apps in Linux]] 
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