> 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

> 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.