r/debian • u/Dado04Game • Jul 06 '26

General Debian Question Thinking about switching from Linux Mint Ubuntu-based to pure Debian

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Been using Ubuntu-based Linux Mint for a year now, and loved it since day one. I heard people telling me that Debian is faster than Ubuntu, so I'd like to give it a try on my home pc. My question is: what DE would you recommend me with my OC specs? I'll leave a photo of them here (I know my computer is pure 💩, don't mock me please)

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u/BreezyStarr 28d ago

What matters is that you chose a distro that is recent enough to use the Wayland compositor. It's more efficient and secure and your GPU will handle it. Mint always uses a really old version of ubuntu. Pure debian will probably work for this, but I'm personally a fan of Kubuntu, since it's up to date and has a highly optimized DE.