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I’ve installed Debian on several different kinds of servers and personal computers and it’s been great. The political drama doesn’t affect me. The versions with
by leephillips 4y ago
I’ve installed Debian on several different kinds of servers and personal computers and it’s been great. The political drama doesn’t affect me. The versions with nonfree drivers, it’s true, are not linked from the Debian website, but there is no problem in finding them. Software versions are not too old, and if I need a more recent release of a program that what’s in the package manager, so far I’ve had no problem finding a binary or compiling it—plus many projects have their own apt repositories, so you can integrate them into the package manager.
Before that I used Ubuntu, and find Debian to be a better experience. Especially lately: no need to know what a Snap is, or worry about what weird innovation the Ubuntu people are going to try next to compromise my privacy or security.
- timbit42 4y agoLinux Mint is also a great option that uses dpkg/apt. Not issues with non-free drivers and also no SNAPs. I also previously used Xubuntu and Kubuntu but now have Debian on my desktop and Linux Mint on my laptop and media center, and my wife's and parent's PCs.
- Nursie 4y agoEqually though, you can use snaps if you want to, as I do on my Debian workstation for a few pieces like IntelliJ. Debian's amazing. I've been using it on and off for more that 25 years now. I've used it on x86/amd64, ARM, Sparc and even S390. I've tried Ubuntu, I've worked with various flavours of RH and SLES. But I keep coming back to Debian.