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[+] pizzaiolo@slrpnk.net -19 points 2 years ago

Take away nostalgia and there's little reason to pick Debian over other distros

[-] BubblyMango@lemmy.wtf 23 points 2 years ago

Non of cannonical's bullshit, more barebones then mint, the only distro i know of where you can almost seemlessly move from stable release to rolling release and back without re-installing, very big software support due to proximity to ubuntu, big repositories, stable is stable AF, you know it will keep being supported for many more years, much more flexible then the DE based distroa like ElementryOS and DeepinOS.

I dont use debian nowadays but its frickin great.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 years ago

What? Its super stable, super easy to install, and makes it easy to run purely free software, and contributing to it contributes to all downstream distros

[-] pizzaiolo@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago

You can sorta say that about most popular distros though

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago

Only sort of and not fully though.

A quick run through of some popular distros and reasons you might pick Debian instead of them

Ubuntu - directed fully by a for profit corporation, might at any time go the way of RHEL (Linux Mint already has a mint spin based on Debian in case Canonical shits the bed). Narrower impact on downstream code bases than Debian (though only barely). Ships by default with non free blobs that you must opt out of.
Linux mint - very narrow downstream impact. Not as flexible for how you can set it up as Debian (switching desktop environments is strictly unrecommended, and there's no real reason to run it as a server)
Fedora - relationship with RedHat is concerning, stability is not there at all
RHEL-alikes (Rocky, Alma, etc) - uncertain future, though it does look like SUSE is going to help stabilize them. Downstream impact is relatively narrow, though you'd be surprised
Arch - harder to install, not as suitable for production environments for stability reasons
Manjaro - horrible stability (worse than arch), not as flexible (like linux mint), holds security patches back, almost no downstream impact
Slack - harder to install, package management is annoying
Kali - not for installing on your machine
Gentoo - see arch
MX Linux - a little more flexible than Mint, but otherwise, see mint

[-] BubblyMango@lemmy.wtf 2 points 2 years ago

What about openSUSE???

[-] jyoskykid@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

openSUSE Tumbleweed is basically Arch with a Control Panel and an enterprise backing.

[-] BubblyMango@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 years ago

And automatic QA testing insuring a higher level of stability compared to arch. Good defaults with byrfs and snapper out of the box too.

[-] blackluster117@possumpat.io 0 points 2 years ago

What are your thoughts on PopOS?

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

I'm just now migrating to Debian after years and years mostly using Mint. I like apt and I want to get away from Ubuntu based distros. Why not go to the source? It's definitely a little rough around the edges compared to Mint, and I may well end up using LMDE once they update to Bookworm.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago

I'm on LMDE right now. Its pretty great. My only complaint is with Cinnamon being 2 minor versions behind I don't get meaningful touch gestures

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

That's cool. I think I'm going to do it. I'm so comfortable in Mint having used it forever. It's a bit of a chore configuring Debian to where I want it. I don't use a touchscreen, so that Cinnamon issue you have wouldn't bother me.

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