Debian-head here, daily driving it for the last 5 years. I distrohopped a lot before but Debian made me stay, mainly because of its stability and the fact that it’s community driven.
It’s getting harder everyday making your needs fit your ethics, but this is one of the few cases and it makes me feel good with my choices.

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Debian on servers. Mint for my friends’ laptops.

Debian in Qubes for me.

I’ve been using Debian for 20 years now, since Debian 3.1 “Sarge”.

My first distro was Knoppix, and it was incredible that I could run a Linux desktop from a CD without installing it. Back then I had something like 96 MB of RAM and my computer was an already ancient Pentium II. And yet it worked fine. This opened my mind about what a computer can actually achieve so I asked around forums in my country and met a guy who had the installation media for Debian. I only had dial-up so downloading DVDs was impossible.

Installed it and used it non stop since then. I’m running Debian Testing with the Unstable and Stable repositories pinned at a lower priority.

It’s hard to describe but the first time I used Linux it just felt like home. I have used DOS 6.x and Windows since 3.1 but it didn’t feel like I was in control of the computer; in retrospect it felt something like an amusement park instead of the engineering marvel it really was. We take it for granted now and don’t completely realize that we have actual super computers in our pockets!

Debian was the epitome of this, for the first time I could understand and control the entirety of the software and best of all: it is a community effort. Smart people all around the world donate their time and skills to create something to improve humanity. What’s not to love and appreciate?

Thank you Deb and Ian.

What flag is this, by the way?

Debian since 1998 checking in

I use it because it’s just always been there it’s the foundation for so many other distros and can be customized the way I want it to be. All the packages are for the most part vanilla other than fixing them to follow the Debian rules. The Debian rules are great since once you learn them. You knows where to find anything on a Debian system.

I messed with mint for a minute, then cubes, pop os, Ubuntu, raspian os and still trying to install arch. I know iknow “read the documentation”

Switched from Ubuntu to Debian this year. With one extra GNOME package install, its basically the same without snaps, so perfect for me.

@[email protected] @ing since you mentioned Ubuntu. I also switched from Ubuntu Server to Debian for the servers, too.

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The most reliable Linux OS out there, software and community. If there’s still people and computers in 50 years, Debian will still be around.

I use it for when I want a custom system. Big ripo, and clean minimal installs along with security updates. I run it my workstation and on my vps systems.

Stable, fully foss and commonly used.

Are You on stable or testing repo? Do You use flatpaks?

I use it because of the lack of BS.

Secondly, it’s stable.