DietPi, anyone? 🥹
I really need one of these shirts
I surfed a few distros before landing on Debian. It solved (almost) all the issues I had with Linux. Debian for life.
Amazing for a server. Both my servers run Debian and I have had no issues.
Due to slow update cadence it’s not a great idea for a server exposed to the internet
If that server includes the security repository in its source files, I disagree. In fact, the use of the security repository in Debian has a history spanning more than 20 years.
Until some fucking php vulnerability grants root access
Eh. They’re actually pretty on top of security patches for pretty much any internet-exposed server software.
The OpenSSL incident was a long time ago at this point.
I run it with KDE for my daily driver & gaming and it is very boring and stable, which is what I want in my PC. Debian is 99% of the time supported.
I recommend it.
I’ve invested so much time and effort into CachyOS. I’ve been running it for over 2 years now. A switch would be very hard and unnecessary work for me since it works no issues for me. Otherwise, Debian would be on my machine.
Running my workstation and server on Debian stable. Debian always. Debian forever.
Debian 14 is here?
Too bad they too bit the AI bullet.
I should install Debian to replace my current Ubuntu install at some point. Might move some services I run to a VM to reduce effort when reinstalling my OS. Then it’s just install steam and copy over my game backup folders. Plus with a VM I can easily move it to a proxmox mini PC if I ever get round to buying one.
Debian is honestly goated. Like I love me a nice boring stable distro that just keeps on chugging. I have done such crazy stuff to Debian and it just refuses to care. It’s like a nokia phone that got run over by a car and still works.
It’s the same for me for my Fedora install on my laptop, I installed version 38 when I got my laptop and now it’s on version 44, next week I’ll upgrade it to 45. It’s been rock solid, never had any issues with it.
Jumped on the Fedora ship with 36.
Updating to 43 or 44 broke my install so seized the occasion to try Silverblue instead of Workstation.
It’s even better although the immutable side has its limitation, so I’m happy to have another computer for these.
Fedora is based on debian?
Debian is basically exactly what I want out of a daily driver. Everything is exactly where I expect it to be every time I go to use it, nothing ever breaks because of a regular update, and it’s not like I can’t just go get the flatpack if I absolutely need the most recent features on an app.
Debian is also perfectly capable of running more bleeding edge stuff if you really wanna do it. I built niri from source on it. Works great.
Also Debian user remembering the last official release:
Speak for yourself. I hate going back to old local Pis or servers I haven’t updated in years and realize that I’m 2+ releases behind and the one I’m on is already end-of-life.
It’s interesting to me that Debian has this image of long time between releases. Mint for example is based on Ubuntu LTS which releases every 2 years, but I haven’t seen the same jokes about Mint.
Not only with intervals but also with quite old software. Sometimes software versions are so old that they are no longer compatible with the upstream version. Although, to be honest, I haven’t used Debian for so long that I can’t even name the applications that lagged behind like that.
In general, Debian is indeed incredibly stable, but if you need to install it on the latest laptop (for example, Intel Core Ultra X9), it will be a real hell.
UPD: except perhaps for using sid. But then you lose the only advantage - stability.
I always looked at their pace as a feature, not a bug.
Some features are just bloat.
Debian the foundation of the modern world. Or at least we wish it was.
it is. at least in the digital world. good chance it’s running the server you are receiving my message through
I picked Debian with absolutely no knowledge of Linux, have yet to switch or try other distros, it’s been well over two years now.
How does Debian do level and security updates? Are they generally a good pace but userland starts consistent?
They backport security updates to the existing software versions on stable, which causes the packages to be secure without introducing new behavior. Feature updates only occur with a new stable release I believe.
Exceptions exist, for example rsync recently got a new upstream version to fix 33 CVEs: rsync.NEWS
I also saw that recently. I’d like to highlight this bit from the news:
This update contains behavior changes, all of which stems from the CVE fixes themselves, not exclusive to the version bump.
So it looks like the package is still mostly kept stable despite the exception made.
sidexists you fucking dorks.Okay, so?
