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What desktop does it use? Can't easily see from the website. But from the choice of Thunar as file manager, seems like it is XFCE? Also default browser seems to be Chrome instead of Firefox which is an odd choice for a Linux distro, but probably to make onboarding easier. Also this is yet another distro that builds on top of Ubuntu, which is rather concerning if tomorrow Ubuntu should do a RHEL, a vast swathe of Linux distros would immediately run into trouble. And finally I'd like to know if there's any significant advantage over Linux Mint whose niche this seems to target as well.

Edit: Is there any distro out there other than Ubuntu and Fedora that can play well with Secure boot enabled?

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> Edit: Is there any distro out there other than Ubuntu and Fedora that can play well with Secure boot enabled?

See this distro watch page:

https://distrowatch.com/search-mobile.php?pkg=shim&relation=...

I haven't checked which ones are derivatives of Ubuntu or red hat, but you may observe that some bsd systems are available.

Debian will work fine with secure boot. MX Linux can as well, as long as it's using a Kernel from Debian.

Its xfce with:

Window Theme: Materia

Icon Theme: Papirus

Font: Roboto Regular

> What desktop does it use?

If the answer isn't "any one I choose" the distro is broken.

It would be shorter to answer the question which Linux distribution does not play well with Secure Boot. Debian was the last big one to get onboard and they sorted it out in 2019.

Would it? Because the answer is probably “most of them”. There’s hundreds of distros. I very much doubt they care about Secure Boot, or, even if they do, have the resources to support it. Some are even outright opposed to Secure Boot for a variety of reasons.

Can you enable it anyway on any distro? Yes, but it may require non-trivial steps to do so.

You are right. I was thinking of distros in the same league as Fedora or Ubuntu. Debian, Suse, RHEL all play nice with Secure Boot. Of the big ones only Arch does not work with Secure Boot out of the box.

I guess many minor distributions don't bother at all. Thanks for pointing it out.

It's Xfce, yeah. And as much as Ubuntu going RHEL would hurt many distros, Debian doing so would be even bigger.

As for Secure Boot, OpenSUSE should work.

Debian is community maintained. Funny to recommend OpenSUSE but pretend debian could do the same as RHEL.

True but in Debian's case I believe their 'social contract' forbids such a move, plus there is no central for-profit entity controlling the source code.

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