After years of distro hopping, I had one to many updates which borked some driver & realized what I’m really looking for is my laptop should be boring stable appliance. Incredibly happy with it so far.
Hooray for Debian, the dullest of dull operating systems!
Here’s to Debian: my most-used and also least-thought-about OS. It just works.
We are all dull men on this blessed day.
Debian is the great choice if you need an OS to manage files and run programs.
And if I want to use my OS to feel cool? If I want to run programs whose new features I mostly don’t per se need but which give me an artificial sense of agency and make me feel less empty? If seeing a wall of updates whose contents I’ll rarely bother to inspect gives the little autism gremlin living in my brain an erection? What then, Debian fanboys?
you can always add repositories that push updated software, or side load it as a .deb from a download
you can also compile it from source yourself
sed -i '/ trixie /!d; s/trixie/unstable/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
I just wanted you to know that this got a good chuckle out of me.
Yep. Debian is probably my next distro, once I for some reason need to reinstall.
I’m definitely not a recreational distro-hopper, though, so I’ll probably be sticking with what I’ve got until something breaks.
After doing the same, I also want to say how much I underestimated Gnome. It was in a weird state a decade ago but now it’s so nice.
Oooooo I’m so close to trying it but I’m a total tech clown. I’m on the spec step to see if I can dual boot. I only looked at Ubuntu and Mint only because they are for beginners. Where does Debian fall in that list? Note: I’m planning on doing this on my brothers PC which only for gaming. Cuz fuck Bill Gates
Debian is fairly straight forward I think, I’d think maybe a half step behind Ubuntu and mint for being easy and accessible, but mint and Ubuntu both have communities that have a reputation of being extremely friendly to new folks just figuring things out
Just depends on what you need :) like the other reply said, mint debian edition is a great choice built by the mint folks to be very user friendly and with the mint community. Just keep in mind debian gets updates very slowly, so I’d expect mint debian edition to also get slow updates (maybe someone more familiar with it can chime in), which may or may not mater for you. But as a result it has a reputation of being absolutely rock solid (though so does mint. And regular mint is based on ubuntu. All the versions of mint ought to be extremely reliable)
Personally if you like one of Mint’s interfaces (desktop environments) I’d probably just start with regular Mint. There are a lot of good options available though :)
There is a Mint Debian Edition that is based on Debian but with the Mint feel. Debian is a bit “lower” on the baseline, meaning more needing to understand Linux. But it’s not Arch or Slackware.
I landed on fedora. Stable with more frequent updates. If I run a server I usually go with Ubuntu because it has a lot of packages installed already so I don’t have dependency issues with whatever I’m installing and I’m too lazy to install a bunch of packages myself.
Do you still need to mess with PPAs or has that pretty much disappeared at this point?
I run QubesOS but all my QubesOS run Debian cos it just works and the ai agents are very good at using it and debugging its quirks.
