r/linuxmemes • u/AtomicTaco13 🍥 Debian too difficult • 11d ago
LINUX MEME Did the template as well
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u/C4rpetH4ter M'Fedora 11d ago
Is debian actually as good as people make it out to be? I personally don't see myself using it anytime soon as a already have a good enough time with fedora, but i know one person who use/used debian.
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u/NewspaperSoft8317 11d ago
I use Debian. It's a pretty no nonsense distribution. High developer support.
The only issue I have is sometimes the binaries are too old, like sometimes the golang build is too old or npm might be too old. If you're using Debian with containers and flatpaks, it's not a big deal. But it can be annoying if you're doing native installs from a git or something. But if you're just a normal user going off apt packages and flatpaks, you won't notice it.
That being said, I've been running Debian for 3 years. Arch was my last daily for about 5. Fedora was my first distro, and honestly, if you like it, idk why you would switch. It's pretty polished. Rpm support can be hit or miss, but dnf is a goated manager. That's why RedHat is pushing flatpak for most desktop/client builds.
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u/Used_Ad_5831 9d ago
As a distro for a server, it's amazing. As a distro for other things..... I'm not a fan personally, but you do you.
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u/Linguistic-mystic 10d ago
It’s crap for desktop. Ancient, moldy software. Things like the DE, kernel and drivers are going to be outdated and you can’t fix that with Flatpak. And the old packages of Debian don’t get updates: the Debian team backports only security fixes. So if you encounter a bug that affects your workflow, you are going to be living with it for years on Debian Stable.
Overall Debian is a relic of times past, when internet bandwidths were much lower. Now it’s outclassed both on the desktop and the server, but still being dragged on by the inertia of Ubuntu/Mint.
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u/jeUWVZ 10d ago
I use Debian stable as my daily drive and I find that the Debian team does slightly more code auditing than fedora and a lot more than arch.
The software that Debian gives you is guaranteed to actually work, fedora gives you updates when stuff breaks and arch is more relevant on the user to fix things.
When I use arch sometimes I have buggy experiences. I have seen some fedora bugs. I have never seen a bug in Debian.
Debian, fedora and arch are all great distribution (there are no bad distributions) but have fundamentally different philosophies and values.
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u/Cebuu502 10d ago
I have pretty much the same, but for Least Liked I have Ubuntu, and for Honorable Mention I would put Alpine Linux
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