General Debian • Re: Why do you use debian?

Hi all
This will be my first post in this forum and my English is not the best and my irritating dyslexia isn't directly to my favor either. Hahaha
I ran into this thread when I was looking for information on an effective firewall.

Why Debian .. It's unfortunately not completely voluntary..... I escaped from windows when win7 reached EOL2020 and win10spyware is not an option and replace all my computers to Apple is way-way to expensive.. I have to many of them
After around 30 years with windows and Microsoft ms-dos since 1987, Linux it is not an completely painless experience.
First I tested all flavors of ubuntu, but it just felt wrong in some mysterious way that can't put my finger on. Then I switched to Mint18.3 which worked fine with win/linux network and all, but when I had to switch to Mint19 some things stopped working, so I switched to LMDE3 Which worked well and was super stable.. just a BIG downside with LMDE... it had a short life before EOL

So Debian seems to be the only distribution which is a LTS version with a little longer life before EOL.. which I am used to from Windows, I really hate to install and tweak computers from core more than once during a computers lifetime. (after installations, setups, tweaks and configurations, I create a recovery partition and a imagebackup of each computer to my server to avoid doing new core installation on each computer ever again.. just a 15min recovery and some security updates and the computer is fit for fight again.)
There is one downside with Debian and that is it's lack of user-friendliness. After 30 years with windows, used to GUI's since the mid/late 90s is the gui-lackiness the only disadvantage i have notised.. otherwise Debian seems to be a good, stable, reliable and promising distro to have on my work-machines.
I have now used Debian in almost 2weeks and I have not managed to configure the 1st computer completely yet.. and I have 6 more computers standing in line. But I'm working on it and I have notice that my microsofts/windows knowledge is my nemesis. I am used to spending a maximum of 3-4 hours/computer on the first install to finished computer with a recovery partition.. I am used to GUI's since the 90s, so Linux feels like a time travel 25 years back in time to ms-dos and win 3.1 And a big downside.. the terminal doesn't have spellcheck for dyslexics hahaha

But it will be fun to learn Debian and to see how Debian develops over time and attracts more and more users, so Debian can compete on the market against wincrap and apple.

I wish you all a nice day and take care of you and your loved ones in these covid times
//Marie

Wow, almost three years ago.. darn have i used Debian that long

Lets see what have changed since my post.. a review on myself

(((I really hate to install and tweak computers from core more than once during a computers lifetime.)))
Yeah this one still goes.. I'm even less enthusiastic nowadays as computer sucks even more.. and i still hate installing computers, but even more it is a hate-hate-hate installing computers now three years later.

(((So Debian seems to be the only distribution which is a LTS version with a little longer life before EOL.)))
i was thinking of CentOS and then IBM/Redhat killed it.. Then came Alma and Rocky they also mention 10years before EOL.. The Redhat pulled a rabbit out of the hat and made it harder for the 1:1 Alma and Rocky builds.. So now everything is in Limbo.
Depending on how my future turns out, i will go Redhat on my server if Alma or Rocky dont find a solid path to go.. it is to much rumors going on on that topic
On my two work desktop and my work laptop i will go back to windows but not crappy home/pro rolling crap.. i will go server2022 re-tweaked for desktop usage.. that will give a version of Windows LTSC but 70% cheaper and i dont have to register a business to get the licenses..
My older two laptops and one desktop will still run Debian12 until they die or end up on the retro shelf.. they barely run Debian now without the CPU's going over 50% on simple tasks.

So why do i use debian.
i still use debian as i have come to that point that Linux is Linux and distributions doesn't matter.. Everything is just about the installed packages that makes the distribution.
With using the root distro instead of mint/ubuntu/mx or all debian forked distros.. i get a cleaner system a lighter system and i can make Debian look like or even become another distro if i want too... But i kind of have my own distro as i dont use Debian out of the box,, i tweak my system and remove stuff and add my stuff, so it kind of becomes a new distro. as distros is about the installed packages and the re-tweaked system.
I have a bad habit of telling the truth. and that do piss off both windows fanboys/girls and linux fanboys/girls.
Windows isn't perfect and becomes even worse for every release.. i do say that on windows forums(tenforums as one example) but i also say the truth about Linux in linux forums.. Linux as server OS is the king of the world... it is just best.. but Linux as desktop/laptop OS is not.. It is so many things that just have to many issues to become a good Desktop/laptop OS.. But it has evolved the last 5½years i have been using Linux as desktop OS. So if they just can fix the big issues, then Linux might become a good Desktop/laptop OS in 5 or 10years.


One of the i tell the truth not so appreciated things. *LOL*
On the LMDE6 release day.. or if it was the day after.. I took an Debian12 Xfce iso.. installed that one.. then i modified that one to become LMDE6.. then i posted that on a Mint forum as.. oh look at my LMDE6 install....
My post was removed a few days later when i told them it was Debian Xfce i had reshaped into LMDE6.. The mint people didn't appreciate my statement that Linux is linux and the installed packages is what makes the distro.


So lets post three pictures out of the 60picture slideshow i made.


So this is why i use Debian as why use a fork of debian if you can make Debian into whatever you want it to become.


Debian becomes LMDE6.. a post i got deleted from a Mint forum.

LMDE6 original is to the left.... and Debian12 Xfce is to the right
This was just to make a point that Linux is Linux and the packages is what makes the distro.
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Take care folks ..., and good luck to all you new Linux users that just starts to discover a new world.
Just remember.. Linux isn't windows or Mac-OS.. as Windows isn't as Mac-OS or Mac-OS as windows... so do not expect Linux to act as windows, as you will just become disappointment then.. Linux is its own thing, a new world for you who never have used it....
always use the right tool for the right job.. you dont use a spoon to fix a roof leak.


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Statistics: Posted by Marie SWE — 2024-01-08 14:28

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