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SPECIALIST DISTROS

We’ve already said that mainstream distros are put together in such a manner so as to appeal to a large number of people. The downside of this approach is the obvious bloat and lethargy. If you don’t have the time to follow our advice in the previous pages to scrape off the excess from your installation, you can still enhance your Linux experience by switching distros.

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