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I use Debian because it is boring and stable. My core system is small and never changes by design. For anything that needs bells and whistles I either spin up a
by worksonmine 3y ago
I use Debian because it is boring and stable. My core system is small and never changes by design. For anything that needs bells and whistles I either spin up a VM, use another package manager or build from source.
Don't try to change Debian, not every package needs to be on every system.
- jampekka 3y agoEven unstable is nowadays boring and stable, and it's hard to get into trouble even with experimental! Decade or two ago it was more exciting when apt upgrade on unstable (or testing after a recent stable release) quite regularly got your computer into an unbootable state, the DE fubared or packages into some interlocking dependency mess that could be more or less impossible to solve. Haven't had that excitement many many years now.
- PedroBatista 3y agoYeah, but I don't know if that's true throughout all the ecosystem. One of the main selling points ( if not THE selling point of Debian ) is the stability and lack of "surprises". If that fails and Debian starts to be perceived as "once was the gold standard, now they are slacking", trust erodes. Even if you're right about 80% of it.
- jampekka 3y agoI didn't mean this as a criticism, but a flippant praise of how well Debian does things. Unstable is for most packages relatively bleeding edge. Of course not e.g. on Arch level, where the excitement is there all the time and the bleeding could be even literal in some use cases. (In Arch this is mitigated somewhat though by the vastly superior packaging system that makes problems easier to fix manually than the awful .deb.)