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I've been experimenting with moving my "getting work done" setup over to an old laptop running just Mint Linux for that exact reasoning. I end up getting so distracted on my MacPro desktop, because it's got everything on there. Movies/Games/Messaging/Email etc. I need just a distraction free environment that still allows me to do web development.

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Instead of mint, if you are doing a new install and looking for a minimalist approach with i3, consider wattOS distro microwatt edition.

I found it on distrowatch; I installed it about 6 months ago on an old laptop and I'm pretty happy with it.

Thanks for the response, is that based on debian/ubuntu? I need to have that environment to mirror production environments.

Yes.

http://planetwatt.com/new/index.php/about/

"wattOS is a lightweight Linux operating system remastered from the core Ubuntu Linux build."

I did not know the existence of this distribution, thanks i'll look into it.

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