I am new here but used BSD and Linux since 1998. Before I was a teenager. But I never gave Debian a chance. I was familiar with it from derivatives (SimplyMEPIS, Xubuntu, etc), but we just never crossed paths.
A couple of years ago, I realized that my wife and kids had a lot going on with their computing requirements. We had macOS, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Pop!_OS, Windows, OpenBSD. And I was supporting it all. I realized that I am in charge of a fleet of computers at home and need to standardize on a platform. It's easier that way.
Before settling on Debian, I chose a different platform first because it was more prominent. I'm not here to slander any other distribution, but I found that the distribution that I chose was not very consistent. It used apt but also another proprietary packaging system that was very slow and prone to corruption for basic things like Firefox after an update. It was also bugging me with subscribing to a pro account for updates. No thank you. It just seemed engineered like a house of cards. When a basic update made Firefox no longer load on every single computer, and this distribution intercepted my attempts to use apt install for the normal Firefox, I decided I was not smart enough for that distribution anymore. Time to move on, which is a real shame, because I've recommended that distribution for new Linux converts many times over the past 2 decades. No more.
So I decided to try Debian. In 25 years, I've used everything, and seen lots of stuff come and go. Name it, and I've probably used it. I used Arch LInux back when it had a curses-based installer. I used FreeBSD from 3.2-RELEASE. I downloaded Slackware on 25+ floppies over dialup when I was 13. I've used OpenBSD for over a decade on the desktop. I even used Zenwalk in 2007. Remember that? But never Debian, outside of running Lenny in a VM about 15 years ago. But Debian has been consistent, and free from any external corruption or corporate influence. It's always been around.
So I installed bullseye, found that it along with Flatpaks met our needs, and stuck with it.
Now everybody in the family uses Debian stable, that's 12 desktops/laptops across three generations. The kids are fine, Gnome is easy enough for them. The sole exception is my wife, who is a Pop!_OS girlie. She loves the tiling features of Pop!_OS and it's an impressive workflow if you ever saw her on her laptop. (Her desktop still runs Debian stable with Gnome.) If Gnome ever gets its tiling system in place, she *might* let me change her system over, but part of being married for 15 years is picking and choosing battles wisely and this isn't one of them.
A couple of years ago, I realized that my wife and kids had a lot going on with their computing requirements. We had macOS, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Pop!_OS, Windows, OpenBSD. And I was supporting it all. I realized that I am in charge of a fleet of computers at home and need to standardize on a platform. It's easier that way.
Before settling on Debian, I chose a different platform first because it was more prominent. I'm not here to slander any other distribution, but I found that the distribution that I chose was not very consistent. It used apt but also another proprietary packaging system that was very slow and prone to corruption for basic things like Firefox after an update. It was also bugging me with subscribing to a pro account for updates. No thank you. It just seemed engineered like a house of cards. When a basic update made Firefox no longer load on every single computer, and this distribution intercepted my attempts to use apt install for the normal Firefox, I decided I was not smart enough for that distribution anymore. Time to move on, which is a real shame, because I've recommended that distribution for new Linux converts many times over the past 2 decades. No more.
So I decided to try Debian. In 25 years, I've used everything, and seen lots of stuff come and go. Name it, and I've probably used it. I used Arch LInux back when it had a curses-based installer. I used FreeBSD from 3.2-RELEASE. I downloaded Slackware on 25+ floppies over dialup when I was 13. I've used OpenBSD for over a decade on the desktop. I even used Zenwalk in 2007. Remember that? But never Debian, outside of running Lenny in a VM about 15 years ago. But Debian has been consistent, and free from any external corruption or corporate influence. It's always been around.
So I installed bullseye, found that it along with Flatpaks met our needs, and stuck with it.
Now everybody in the family uses Debian stable, that's 12 desktops/laptops across three generations. The kids are fine, Gnome is easy enough for them. The sole exception is my wife, who is a Pop!_OS girlie. She loves the tiling features of Pop!_OS and it's an impressive workflow if you ever saw her on her laptop. (Her desktop still runs Debian stable with Gnome.) If Gnome ever gets its tiling system in place, she *might* let me change her system over, but part of being married for 15 years is picking and choosing battles wisely and this isn't one of them.
Statistics: Posted by unix_joe — 2024-04-28 20:46 — Replies 598 — Views 2935440