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Even though I use ubuntu on my desktop, it is from Debian, and I ran Debian on my servers for years. Debian is the most important software for me for decades. F
by ausjke 10y ago
Even though I use ubuntu on my desktop, it is from Debian, and I ran Debian on my servers for years. Debian is the most important software for me for decades. For that I thank you, Riku, and everybody else contributes to Debian!
- shmerl 10y agoWhat prevents you from using Debian on the desktop? I'm using Debian testing for quite a while already, and it works rather well. The only annoyance is the the freeze period, but it got shorter lately.
- ausjke 10y agoToo many software development environments are using ubuntu out-of-the-box these days, I thus follow that to save some setup time. If I use desktop for simply surfing or office needs then yes Debian will be my preference.
- dromen 10y agoAre there specific things you had issues with? Debian Testing still feels more stable and as feature-filled as Ubuntu Xenial to me.
- shmerl 10y agoI never had such kind of problems when using Debian, but if you need to target a specific distro, you can always add a VM or chroot / container to target it. There is no need to replace the desktop OS to do it. Linux is quite good for such kind of thing.