I have used Debian for the past 3 years, who else uses Debian?

Also, what makes you use Debian?

  • @[email protected]English
    1•2 days ago

    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”

  • JohnEnglish
    1•4 days ago

    I like Debian + flatpaks. 🤷‍♀️

    I like the philosophy behind Debian. It’s not a corpo distro

  • @[email protected]
    4•5 days ago

    I love Debian, its IMO the best distro even though atm I dont use it. Its the most stable and by far the distro that just works the most.

      • @[email protected]
        1•5 days ago

        Old but not necessarily out of date. The system is at a stable state. It’s working and we don’t want to make changes that can compromise stability. New features and other big code changes comes with increased risk of something breaking. Debian Stable means running code that have been tested and used a lot.

        Security fixes and critical bugs get back ported if feasible, or a package might get updated to a newer version.

        • @[email protected]
          2•5 days ago

          I agree with you. I didn’t say Debian was bad. There are people who want the stability of Debian and that’s not a bad thing

          • @[email protected]English
            2•4 days ago

            I was just to clarify that you’re not sitting with software full of security issues because of older versions of packages. And then some bonus info on what “stable” means in Debian :-)

  • Avid Amoeba
    21•7 days ago

    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.

  • fmstratEnglish
    2•4 days ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
    6•7 days ago

    I’m a big fan of a minimal Debian system with Flatpaks.
    Technically, Fedora Silverblue would be perfect for me, but I had way more issues with it than with Debian, despite it being immutable and atomic.

  • @[email protected]
    8•7 days ago

    I appreciate their philosophy. I’ve been a Linux user since the early 2000s and have cycled through 30-40 distros at least. I’m not a highly technical user. I would consider myself a solid intermediate. For a daily use system I prefer arch, but my servers run Debian. Most of the people writing install guides for the software I deploy seem to use Debian so I run into less issues this way. It can be hard to follow a guide for Gentoo when you’re using Hanna Montana Linux, know what I’m saying? Same thing with Debian. It’s just a solid choice with the bonus of having a better, more ethical philosophy, and the benefit of being widely adopted and supported by people who can help when you get stuck. I don’t even mind gnome on my servers since it works well with a single screen and it’s super rare that I actually need the server GUI anyway.

    • funkajunkEnglish
      3•7 days ago

      This is the way.

      I have 3 servers that are all on some flavor of Debian, but Arch on my personal rig.

      Stability where I need it for those always-on workloads, and the ability to fuck around as much as I want over in the corner.

  • @[email protected]
    8•7 days ago

    I’ve been using it on my server for 6 or 8 years, and on my desktop and laptop for maybe a year. I’m not sure when I switched.

    I like the stability, I generally don’t need bleeding edge software. And as someone else mentioned, it’s one of the packages distributors always offer.

  • Bilb!English
    1•4 days ago

    I use Aurora, but my dev containers on aurora are usually Debian. So yes, technically I use Debian a lot!

  • 𝚝𝚛𝚔English
    1•5 days ago

    I used to like Ubuntu LTS because it was just Debian that wasn’t quite as out of date, but more recent installs seem to suggest that you only get all the patches if you subscribe to their paid service? Not sure what the fine print is on that.

    This box was turned on, Nextcloud installed, and never touched since (side from apt updates).

    06:49:18 up 2081 days, 22:07,  1 user,  load average: 0.21, 0.33, 0.42
  • data1701d (He/Him)English
    7•7 days ago

    I have been using Debian - it’s the only distro I’ve used in my 3 years of Linux as a daily driver, and I started using it in VMs instead of Ubuntu a while before that.

    I also like stability and Debian’s community-oriented nature.

    I am currently on Testing for my desktop, but plan to either go stable or do a reinstall when Trixie hits stable - I’m tired of rolling release and my programs changing frequently. I have really enjoyed Debian 12 + Flatpaks on my Thinkpad, so I think I will do that when summer rolls around.