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What didn’t you like about Debian on the desktop? Old software?
by bzb4 6y ago
What didn’t you like about Debian on the desktop? Old software?
- pmontra 6y agoI don't remember exactly, it was 6 years ago. I remember the general feeling of having to do too much work to get a usable desktop. Maybe the settings? Keep in mind that I don't need anything fancy. I liked Gnome 2 and I stayed with Gnome Fallback until last year when there were enough Gnome Shell extensions to bend it to what I like a desktop to be. Maybe Debian is on par now. Old software can be worked around with containers and third party apt repositories. I often do that on Ubuntu too.
- dleslie 6y agoDebian has improved greatly in the last six years. Try it with the xfce or mate flavours.
- billme 6y agoI personally use any distro based on the situation. As others have pointed out, common reasoning behind picking a distro include: hardware requirements, existing ecosystems, end user, package management, configurableness, security, long-term support, ease of learning, driver support, core dev team’s opinions, funding, etc.