I should install Debian to replace my current Ubuntu install at some point. Might move some services I run to a VM to reduce effort when reinstalling my OS. Then it’s just install steam and copy over my game backup folders. Plus with a VM I can easily move it to a proxmox mini PC if I ever get round to buying one.
Debian is honestly goated. Like I love me a nice boring stable distro that just keeps on chugging. I have done such crazy stuff to Debian and it just refuses to care. It’s like a nokia phone that got run over by a car and still works.
It’s the same for me for my Fedora install on my laptop, I installed version 38 when I got my laptop and now it’s on version 44, next week I’ll upgrade it to 45. It’s been rock solid, never had any issues with it.
Debian is basically exactly what I want out of a daily driver. Everything is exactly where I expect it to be every time I go to use it, nothing ever breaks because of a regular update, and it’s not like I can’t just go get the flatpack if I absolutely need the most recent features on an app.
Debian is also perfectly capable of running more bleeding edge stuff if you really wanna do it. I built niri from source on it. Works great.
I picked Debian with absolutely no knowledge of Linux, have yet to switch or try other distros, it’s been well over two years now.
Also Debian user remembering the last official release:
It’s interesting to me that Debian has this image of long time between releases. Mint for example is based on Ubuntu LTS which releases every 2 years, but I haven’t seen the same jokes about Mint.
I always looked at their pace as a feature, not a bug.
Some features are just bloat.
How does Debian do level and security updates? Are they generally a good pace but userland starts consistent?
They backport security updates to the existing software versions on stable, which causes the packages to be secure without introducing new behavior. Feature updates only occur with a new stable release I believe.
Exceptions exist, for example rsync recently got a new upstream version to fix 33 CVEs: rsync.NEWS
Debian the foundation of the modern world. Or at least we wish it was.
it is. at least in the digital world. good chance it’s running the server you are receiving my message through
sidexists you fucking dorks.Okay, so?
*Debain
