• _cnt0@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    26·
    20 days ago

    I use fedora as a daily driver and debian for everything that just needs to do one thing for possibly decades to come with as little maintenance as possible.

      • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgEnglish
        11·
        20 days ago

        Sometimes, you do need some newer packages (e.g. for gaming), and Debian is … not very good at facilitating that, even if it’s usually possible, in theory, to install newer packages from Sid. Flatpaks or manually installing stuff through git etc. help, but that doesn’t work well for stuff like GPU drivers.

      • _cnt0@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9·
        20 days ago

        My set of requirements for a daily driver is very different. From experience, I’ll end up with a frankendebian that requires much more manual intervention and has a high risk of breaking during updates.

        • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          20 days ago

          fair point. I fucked my install trying to make my overheating issues go away, but after going onto nobara, pika os I think the issues are here to stay. I’m going to try to stop overtinkering to stop getting frankendebian

    • toynbee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      20 days ago

      I would use Debian more if I didn’t have to remember whether to use apt or yum every time I ssh’d into a random server on my network.

      • pulsewidth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        19 days ago

        I think this is why some people use Neofetch (and its contemporaries).

        It helps give a quick rundown of server specs, OS, etc to help remind you of the command mindset you need to be operating in when you connect to a new machine remotely - just quickly run your info tool of choice.

        • toynbee@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          19 days ago

          Yeah, or I could put something in the prompt, I’ve considered writing an alias or function so instead of yum or apt I could just run install and let the system run what it must.

          It’s not really a big concern, though. I don’t run that many systems and I reimage them with different distros often enough that it hasn’t been worth addressing for me.

          Thank you for the suggestion though!

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
    14·
    20 days ago

    “It comes in three flavors: stale, useless and moldy”

    edit: look at the downvotes. Sheesh, I was just going with the joke. FWIW I’m typing this on a Debian Stale machine. Same as my server.

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgEnglish
      8·
      20 days ago

      Proudly running Debian Moldy (aka oldstable) on my servers. Fuck doing major version updates until I absolutely have to.

  • hushable@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    20 days ago

    Debian is so boring (I love it from the bottom of my hearth and use it in all my servers and personal laptop)

  • ExLisperAEnglish
    9·
    20 days ago

    For me debian sounds more like a steam roller. It just works. I installed debian on my first laptop 20 years ago and I know that if I just kept dist-upgrading it every day it would still be running today.

  • MrSulu@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    20 days ago

    Awww, mocking my favourite distro. Tried so many. Not a fan of persistent tinkering. I use Debian because it’s awesome for me and my family to use as daily driver.