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      Deepin is a desktop environment (windows is the desktop environment for the “windows” os) deepin runs on Linux. There are other desktop environments like gnome and kde. Which are open source. Deepin is a Chinese gov de

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      Windows? You have exactly 10 seconds to get the hell out of my house!

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          it’s a Chinese distro that looks very pretty but pays a heavy performance penalty

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            Of course the there is also the stigma of Chinese government telemetry embedded in Deepin

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              well the thing is it’s open source. that is no guarantee for safety but with some popularity it’s as close as it gets. many people would probably love to write a paper about the Cybersecurity of deepin - especially if there are juicy issues.

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              i had this DE for a while and liked it. for example it has a simple right click menu for per-application-scaling as far as i remember. and it’s pretty.

              but yeah not exactly something for gaming.