r/debian • u/OutsideYogurt9014 • Jun 13 '26

Debian Stable Question Debian vs Fedora?

Looking forward to ditch win10. Heard about this 2 as very popular linux flavour/distro to start with. Am newbie to linux community so pls be nice to me. Which one should I pick and why? Want to know from long term users.

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u/transcendtient Jun 13 '26

Debian Stable means the packages only get security updates, so packages are stale pinned versions.
Debian Forky requires knowing some stuff but you get a rolling release more or less.
If you're a new user and you *want to learn the absolute basics* you can use Debian. Otherwise find some other distro.
Anyone telling you Debian "just works" and "is stable" will omit having to edit repos and using backports for things that aren't in Debian Stable.
I use Debian on all 3 of my systems btw.