New Distro GuideOS

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Hello Froum,

I wanted to promote a new distro. GuideOS is based on Debian and is primarily aimed at Linux beginners.

The project originated as a feasibility study and for fun in the German Linux forum linuxguides.de.

Since December 24, 2025, version 1.0 has been available for download and testing—this is the first public version.

After all, this little hobby project made it onto the Distrowatch homepage.

I myself only tested it a little and gave some feedback. Since Debian and Cinnamon are not my cup of tea, my involvement was not very extensive.

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I’ll test it out Debian is my jam :upside_down_face: :zany_face:

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I’ll take a look too. I’ll see how well it actually caters to beginners, and if it works well for beginners and old timers or just beginners.

I tried it out; the decided German orientation of the version I downloaded made this much too complex for me; I was able to translate some stuff into English, deduce from similar words and phrases what various things meant, but unless I find an English localized version, this is not beginner for me unless beginner German is the goal. I may poke to see if I find another suitable image; the one I downloaded was not useful for me at all.

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