I have used Debian for the past 3 years, who else uses Debian?
Also, what makes you use Debian?
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”
I’m using Debian too. I switched to linux because of privacy reasons and my second thought was that it would be nice if it’s completely developed by an open community without a bigger corporation behind it.
Works great so far. See no reason to change distros.
Yes, Debian is run by the people for the people, no corporate giant behind it!
The Debian community is so sweet and caring, MiniDebConf Berlin 2024:
This pic made me smile.
I haven’t been to DebConf since before COVID, but I definitely recognize a few people in that pic.
1G!
Jeez, dat internal to external genital ratio
Cbase s2
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.
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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.
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I like Debian + flatpaks. 🤷♀️
I like the philosophy behind Debian. It’s not a corpo distro
Stable, fully foss and commonly used.
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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.
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.
Debian on Servers. Not-Debian on not-servers.
It’s doesn’t have to be complicated.
Exactly this, unfortunately we have a company policy from the group which says we must use Ubuntu Server as a server OS… 😬
What’s wrong with it?
Its just “worse” debian
No, it’s not.
I mean youre right. But as someone who’s used both I couldn’t tell you the difference between the two except for snap.
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I am stupid I never thought to use Debian as a server. It got to try it out
Yeah, Debian for services/servers (Raspberry Pi in my case) and Gentoo on the desktop.
But for the not tech-savy family members I’ve choosen Fedora for them. They need more GUI.
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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.
I use Aurora, but my dev containers on aurora are usually Debian. So yes, technically I use Debian a lot!
Thank you Deb and Ian.
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.
Sure its the most stable, but the packages are usually out of date
Tbh sometimes having the most up to date packages isnt very important
Yes, there are different distros for people with different wants. That’s the beauty of Linux.
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.
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
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 :-)
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.
Are You on stable or testing repo? Do You use flatpaks?
I’m running Debian on multiple computers and laptops. This screenshot is of my desktop running Debian Trixie and yes I use flatpaks!
I see. Im asking because software in debian is old and so I wonder if this bothers desktop debian users or maybe they like it this way. If I were a debian user I would probably stay on testing to get some packages faster. Thanks for a reply!
I always use Debian unstable, but my desktop has an Nvidia GPU and I want some stability for #Warframe and #Minecraft, the only two games I play.
So I just installed the latest update by changing my /etc/apt/sources.list.d from Bookworm to Trixie.
I like it this way. When you say old, I hear “the environment is predictable”. What works today won’t break in a week because an update changed functionality of something. As long as I have hardware support, I don’t need the latest packages for what I do.
