HAPPY BDAY DEBIAN!!!
EVEN THO I CANT UAE U I WISH U ALL THE BEST
I’ve been an Ubuntu user for about 20 years. I’m too lazy to distro hop and never tried debian.
How does debian compare to kde Ubuntu (kubuntu)? Is it worth the switch?
Long live debian! Long live the king!
Nice! I started using it just this week. I built a computer to serve as NAS with Debian and ZFS.
I’m also considering moving my Ubuntu based server to Debian; it gets too many package updates that I frankly don’t care about, plus even Ubuntu server feels a bit bloated.
I moved from Gentoo to Ubuntu a few years ago precisely to reduce my workload; I just wanted it to work… and now I’m considering Debian for the same reason.I’m in a similar boat. I’ve been using Ubuntu on my servers for years but all the crap around snaps and paid sec updates has worn me down. I’m actively in the process of switching it all to Debian.
Snaps seemed like such a time-saver until I tried installing some and they just didn’t work at all, or needed some workarounds and janky weird solutions to even function.
Specifically I’m talking about microk8s. What a god-awful snap, I never got it working and it’s completely broken out of the box. Ugh, I’m eyeballing a move to Debian for my headless servers too.
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Something a Gentoo user might care about is the distro’s compile time options. Ubuntu uses -O2 and LTO, Debian uses -O1. Debian has always been noticably slower overall for me.
Don’t do what I did and go with Tumbleweed. It gets more updates than Arch.
It’s not that difficult to build your own kernel based on the official debian one: https://kernel-team.pages.debian.net/kernel-handbook/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official
It doesn’t make much of a difference in the kernel, but I definitely notice it on Debian’s Firefox vs Flatpak.
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It’s a great base for general desktop use as well as server. Been using it on my PC for years now, and aside from a few 3rd party repositories it has everything I need. It just works and continues to work.
Never felt the need to pick Debian since it has very old packages but it’s good with choice.
stable and new stuff on unstable.
If you want a rolling release then testing or Sid is where it’s at. They are usually ahead of Ubuntu.
debian is the goat if I want something that just works
best distro ever
All my & my clients servers run on Debian ❤️
Indeed!
It ain’t even close
Debian is my go-to distro whenever stability is desired.
I use Arch btw (on my desktop), but I would never run it on my server… I feel that I could easily ruin my database (Postgres) if I am not careful enough with the rolling release.
I use Arch btw
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The Arch website runs on Arch :mindblown:
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Debian <3
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Debian will run on every server I will ever set up and for good reason!
Here I am regretting my decision to move from CentOS to rocky on my servers
I started with Ubuntu servers and moved on to Debian, never used anything else much because it always worked great but Redhat clones are supposed to be really nice too and I love Fedora on desktop! What’s the problem with your Rocky server?
It’s just the drama that IBM is causing in the redhat world. It makes me nervous.
Don’t worry too much about that, it sucks but won’t kill Rocky, Alma or Oracle because Redhat doesn’t have the rights to do that, they can just make maintanace of those a lot harder! ;)
Debian is my “Ol Reliable”. Love it.
I’ve been happily running Debian for over a decade. Stable for servers, Testing or SID for laptops and desktops. The original installs not still running and upgrading are ones on hardware too obsolete to be useful (SheevaPlug). Still probably supported by Debian though!
Including one install that started as Mint Debian Edition, was upgrading to Testing, then cross graded from 32bit to 64bit, been through 3 motherboards and is now Stable for it’s final days before the disk is scrapped.
I love the pacakaging, the philosophy and all the platforms supported (including really old ones).
I literally count it among the proof humans are not irredeemable.
Edit: Expand about “obsolete”.
How stable is Testing for daily use by the way?
Absolutely fine. Probably helps I’m a XFCE man so at least my desktop doesn’t suddenly change. I enjoy the constant incrementing of stuff. Gets boring before a Stable release during the freeze.
I really enjoy Debian. I have no need for bleeding edge software releases, what I need is stability. I even run Firefox ESR 😀 It’s quite hard to brick a Debian stable installation (if not doing any extraordinary that is).
Yep. People are always in shock when you tell them you’re using an older version.
The truth is - I don’t like sudden changes in apps I use on daily basis 😌 debian is truly perfect for me
Same here. I use Debian on everything for years and it never broke my workflow and I never experienced a breaking update. Since Firefox-ESR also finally works with hardware acceleration OOTB for me, I am very happy.
