i'm using linux since 1994 on my own desktop since 1996 -> why? netscape 4 which supported linux was available * desktop(s) - on my own debian / stable (develo

i'm using linux since 1994 on my own desktop since 1996 -> why? netscape 4 which supported linux was available * desktop(s) - on my own debian / stable (development) * (my) laptop & all desktop/laptops of "family-members" which i support for free - linux-mint * servers - mostly debian / stabe and sometimes centos / rhel why debian? its rock-solid - "stable" -, has a working dist-upgrade-path and it offers/maintains a vast selection of packages "out of the box" (from distro-repos) why linux-mint? it looks nice and some edge-cases are easier to handle compared to vanilla-debian - especially: 3rd party drivers for certain hardware etc. why centos/rhel? server-distro, 3rd party software is sometimes only supported on those edit: i started with slackware back in the early 90ties, but also took a look on suse - which was slackware-based at first - and redhat ... settled with debian after the "apt" tool was available :) i'm really happy with the situation of linux today. sure ... you can always find some details to improve, but compared to the 90ties nearly everything works like a charm ;))