Once I get my rig up and running (assuming that the mtx has saved the rest of my desktop from being fried). I am going to look at changing my distro as I have been using Manjaro for quite some time and found that it is not as responsive as it once was but also as I've become forlorn at having to rely on the AUR (Arch User Repository) for things like printer and scanner drivers, inevitably other AUR components sneak their way in from time to time which has left me somewhat disappointed.
So I'm looking for a distro which is light on resources, stable and either has brother printer / scanner drivers in the official repository or can be obtained directly from the manufacturer , rather than using unofficial packages cobbled together by users as is the case with AUR.
To this end I started at first looking at Fedora XFCE, as drivers are available from Brother website, I am also drawn as Fedora is part of the RHEL development stream, the fact that Linus Torvalds also uses Fedora lends it a certain appeal.
I must confess that in the last few weeks I have being looking more and more at a distro which I had never considered due to a bad experience with a Linux Mint offshoot of this distro.
The distro in question is Debian (again I would be using the XFCE desktop as I find it an excellent balance between performance, functionality & appearance).
I had a nightmare using mint Debian edition (this was years back and I understand that mint at the time gave it very minimal attention).
I hear from lots of people that Debian is ultra stable, reliable and secure due to the free software only ethos. I also hear that it is very lean on resources (good news for me as my desktop is several years old).
I also like the idea that Debian doesn't use the latest software versions and only incorporates software into it's repository when it is completely satisfied that it is stable (would I be right in saying that critical security updates are still applied even though software versions remain a version behind).
On the face of it Debian sounds just like what I want, it's one of the oldest distros and has spawned many offshoots.
If anyone can offer any advice or user experience concerning Debian or Fedora it would be very greatly appreciated.
I've tried using the live images of both but they both seem quite bare and in my past experience you only begin to get an accurate impression of what a distro is like once you install it.
All help and advice greatly appreciated.
May look at getting a UPS to prevent power fumbles in future.
