My 23 year (so far) experience with Linux distrohopping since first install

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My 23 year (so far) experience with Linux distrohopping since first install
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You should try debian

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Fun fact: you can use command uptime to check how long it’s been since Debian was installed

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Fucking nice, that one.

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I’ve been using debian pretty much exclusively since 2003

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Everyone shits on stable, including myself, but wow is it nice. The possibility of a breaking change is infinitesimal. It’s so refreshing being able to just open my laptop and do things without worrying about general OS maintenance

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I really get this experience with FedoraKDE. It just works with very little fuss

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I setup Debian with MATE for a friend who had only used Window$ and had little to none technical knowledge, then setup cronjobs for 1) upgrading all installed packages 2) her data to be rsynced between the two built-in SSDs. It’s been a year now, she has asked for help only twice, both of them involving complex third-party software.

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After early “distro” on floppies that wasn’t really distro, the first one I really used was Debian, then I used Ubuntu and Mint, then MX for almost 10 years now. All based on Debian.

I’m using MX on my work PC that I use daily, update every day, never broken.

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Comments in Memes@sopuli.xyz

Typical Debian user:

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Oh, Debian a debian the debian debian Debian Debianing over debian debian to very Debian debian. Only Debian is debian to debian enough for debian. Debian is debian though. Debian…

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I can upvote this one in spirit. I started with a distro based on Slackware around 1998. I tried different ones like Mandrake, but went back to Slackware for a while. Then I tried Debian 2.2 in the early 2000 and stayed with it ever since.

I do have other distros installed on other computers, but I usually prefer those based on Debian.

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I presume anyone old enough to start with slackware without auto dependency management and then use apt had a similar experience. I did :)

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Apt blew my mind. It was becoming increasingly difficult to install and maintain a lot of software on Slackware, just for my personal computer. So when a friend showed me Debian and apt, everything was suddenly much much easier.

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Honestly, fair.

My only issue with it is the conflicting answers you get with apt vs apt-get vs whatever the 3rd option is, and the 6 different valid commands for upgrading your system, that also have conflicting answers on which is ‘correct’.

That, and yay -Sy is way more fun to type, and shorter.

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he/him

if we’re talking about fun commands, my aliases for adding/removing packages are gimme/yeet.

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