Same... Debian and derivatives everywhere, including Raspbian (now RaspiOS I think) on an army of Pi and even "RasPBX" back in the days (running Asterisk + Free

Same... Debian and derivatives everywhere, including Raspbian (now RaspiOS I think) on an army of Pi and even "RasPBX" back in the days (running Asterisk + FreePBX to power Cisco VoIP phones from a Raspberry Pi 1!) and even Devuan on two machines (a Debian fork without systemd). Well, since the nineties and Debian 1.1... > Yes, the packages can sometimes begin to get old by a few years but the whole system remains outstandingly stable. I then compile from source. I do it for Emacs notably and at time I recompiled the kernel (for example at one point I had patched MagicSysRQ and was running a kernel with a modified MagicSysRQ). Nowadays I like to use the stock, signed, Debian kernel: even if it's not a full UKI yet I like to see "SecureBoot on" (I know it's a touchy subject and I know it's not a panacea and I know I should really run a signed UKI but I haven't set that up... yet!). I don't bother to "dist-upgrade", except to go from the "hard freeze" to the stable one. Typically I re-install from scratch when a new release comes out. YMMV. Long live Debian! (and Debian shall outlive me)