Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Installing an OS It is recommended that you test out an OS in a virtual machine such as or run it from a live CD/USB before installing it. This lets you test out the operating system without any permanent change to your system. You should also consider booting as a live CD to ensure good hardware compatibility. There are detailed instructions available on installing in a.

However, if you've decided to dedicate yourself to -- getting it up and running isn't as daunting as one might think. First of all: you have to figure out what distribution you want, and what architecture your CPU has, and download the corresponding ISO. Do download it with torrent, or check the checksum after it has finished downloading. It will save you a lot of hassle if you get a corrupted ISO.

Jul 20, 2006 - I've tried downloading the latest Gentoo Linux, and I find it always stops. Really slow, so I tried a direct download.then forgot about the torrent.

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There are multiple tools available for creating a Linux bootable USB from this ISO, where the most common ones are if you're already running Linux, and if you're on a Windows system. Boot from the USB, follow instructions. Official distribution manual, or just make a thread on /g/ or make a post at /g/flt once you have searched exhaustively on Google. Desktop operating systems If you are looking for an OS for daily use, try one of these. Keep in mind that most of your software and games will not work if you don't have the time to fiddle with Wine. However, most software has an equal or better FOSS replacement. Check out for more information on open source alternatives.

Dpkg-based distros Debian is great for both desktops and servers. It is the base of many distros, including Ubuntu and Mint. GNOME is the default desktop, but several others can be chosen during installation.

It comes in three variants: • Stable - The production version that has a release cycle of two years. It is made by feature freezing testing for a few months as bugs are fixed and packages with too many bugs are removed; then the resulting system is released as stable. It is updated only if major security or usability fixes are incorporated.

Much of its software will be outdated and won't get an update, but you can use backports. It is commonly used on servers. • Testing - The preview branch that will become the next stable. The packages included in this branch have had some testing in unstable, but they may not be fit for release yet. It contains newer packages than stable, but older than unstable. This branch is updated continually until it is feature frozen. It is commonly used on desktops.

• Unstable - The active development version which is also called Sid. Packages are accepted without checking the distribution as a whole. This branch is usually run by developers who need the latest libraries and by those who prefer bleeding-edge software. It is not recommended unless you know what you're doing. After the systemd debacle in Debian, there has been a fork of Debian called that aims to be minimalist, keep the Unix philosophy in mind and preserve init freedom.

It is not ready for production use yet, according to the developers. Ubuntu is a common beginner's choice. It is based on Debian, and will use the GNOME desktop environment starting in 2018 with 18.04 LTS, as Canonical has ended their investment in Unity. The distro is generally despised by /g/ and /tech/ for their Amazon integration. However, the spyware is now disabled by default since 16.04 LTS.

The learning curve is one of the lowest. It has a fairly intuitive user interface and lots of support. A polished LTS (Long Term Support) version is released every two years and supported for five years with security and performance updates.

Regular versions are released every six months with bleeding-edge packages, but are only supported for nine months. Its online search feature sends data to Canonical who shares it with Amazon, but it can be turned off. If you dislike Unity you may wish to try a variant of Ubuntu. There are several that are not commercially supported by Canonical. The most popular are: • uses the XFCE desktop environment. It is a semi-lightweight variant with a somewhat spartan user interface.

It uses a dock similar to the one in macOS by default. • uses the KDE Plasma Desktop. It is much heavier on RAM, but has a nice user interface that comes with a lot of extra gadgets.

Check out for the more flagship KDE support. • uses the LXDE desktop environment. It is great for low power machines, due to its low memory usage.

Use this if you want to save RAM. While LXDE is hated by many on /g/ and /tech/, most of its bad rap comes from its lackluster interface and earlier days when it was more glitchy. Users who prefer a Windows GUI may like LXDE. Check out for further expansion on the idea. • uses the GNOME desktop environment.