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Debian is the vanilla of distros - just enough glue to make stuff work well together. And upgrades work the smoothest of any distros I tried. My desktop instal
by ilyt 3y ago
Debian is the vanilla of distros - just enough glue to make stuff work well together.
And upgrades work the smoothest of any distros I tried. My desktop install is from 2007 and I think it survived replacement of every component of my machine including the case.
We even had one of admins accidentally update one of legacy servers "2 versions up" and it just worked!
- sph 3y ago> Debian is the vanilla of distros - just enough glue to make stuff work well together. Just enough glue and tons of patches. I used to love Debian, these days I much prefer the "upstream is king, do not patch it unless it's broken" approach of Arch Linux, and to a lesser extent, Fedora. I always say that when you learn to use Apache 2 on Debian, you only learn how to use Apache 2 on Debian. There was a moment of confusion the first time I configured it on Arch and there was no /etc/apache2/sites-enabled directory. Upstream will always know better, and have better testing facilities than a random maintainer adding their custom solution on top of the vanilla code. (Since I'm here complaining, I might as well add I dislike deb/apt more than I dislike dnf/rpm, and they are both quite unergonomic) Just my 2 cents. I respect Debian and its place in the Linux world. I've just fallen out of love with it and that's OK. I wish non-Debian distros were more popular though.