• 9point6@lemmy.world
    56·
    6 months ago

    All my personal servers/sbcs run Debian

    I do enough DevOps at work, I don’t need my free time to be a job too

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caOP
      43·
      6 months ago

      Do you want to live the boring stable life, where you can just build and build and build your personal poop castle on top of that solid OS for years and years? If yes, switch to Debian. You won’t be reinstalling till you get so bored that you get the urge to self-harm (by reinstalling). We can’t afford new hardware anyways, but even if we do, the same install will work on the new system with few tweaks. 😆

      The initial setup is a bit more annoying than Pop/Mint/Ubuntu but not too much more. Upgrades are also a bit more annoying but not too much more. There’s good documentation for both of those procedures.

    • The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      I just did this as a complete noob. Well, PopOS is still on my gaming rig, but my secondary PC is now Debian.

      I expected it to be way more barebones, but it turns out that my experience has been like 90% identical.

    • gigachad@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      I run Mint with Cinnamon on my Desktop PC and Debian with Gnome on a mini PC. I use the latter as a server and disabled the GUI, but Gnome was hard to get used to. I use my PC for casual gaming, browsing, and casual Python development. I am not a Linux power user but pretty familiar with the terminal. Setting up native Python without relying on UV/conda on Debian was a nightmare, but I guess that’s an edge case. I really love Linux Mint, and I also really like Cinnamon.

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Python without UV/Conda is always somewhat of a pain on Linux, well, if you need a specific version that is. It comes pre-installed on virtually all distros, because the distros use it themselves to script stuff in the OS. That also means, if you install a different Python version OS-wide, you can break those OS scripts.

        Admittedly, it is somewhat of a larger pain on Debian, though, because it will stay behind on older Python versions for longer than most other distros. After the Python 2→3 transition, they also continued to alias python to python2 for quite some years (I’m actually not sure, if they alias to python3 by now)…

    • hushable@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 months ago

      I’ve been long time Debian fan, I use it on all my servers and my laptop, however on my gaming rig I had PopOS and recently switched to PikaOS which is based on Debian and I’m absolutely loving it

    • BurntWits@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      6 months ago

      I’ve got two computers. My gaming pc is running CachyOS, and my other computer which is basically for messing around with and watching movies, used to be running Mint, but I just today switched over to Debian with XFCE as the DE and I’m liking it so far. Super bare bones but that’s what I wanted for this computer anyway so it works great for me.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
    9·
    6 months ago

    I’ve been liking vanilla Debian more and more lately. It takes a bit of time to set up properly, and there are some drawbacks for certain software stacks. But in general, rock stable, no muss, barely any fuss.

    Once it’s set up, it’s awesome for workhorse servers.

    And as long as you don’t need anything cutting edge, it’s not bad as a desktop OS. I used Debian12 with the Plasma DE for a while at a job I had and it was very usable. A few weird issues, but nothing terrible.

  • ☭SaltyIcetea☭@lemmy.ml
    8·
    6 months ago

    Debian is great. but where is the fun in greatness? the jank is what makes computing enjoyable. wabi sabi or something like that.

    (i use arch btw.)

  • Da Oeuf@slrpnk.net
    8·
    6 months ago

    I love being on Debian, everything just working and not living in fear of updates. And any software that I must have the latest version of I just install via flatpak, appimage, distrobox etc.

  • Cora@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    6 months ago

    I started with Ubuntu 8.10 on Gnome 2, and switched to Debian 8 after Snaps were introduced in Ubuntu 16.04.

    I still use Gnome with a very Gnome 2-esque layout. AND default Adwaita. What can I say, it’s digital home for me. Almost every app I use is Flatpak, so it’s always fresh.

  • invictvs@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 months ago

    I switched from Mint to Debian recently and it’s been great so far. I’m still getting used to the idea of no “panel” (tasks bar), but I think I will keep it that way since it looks cleaner. I find it really easy to navigate with just keyboard shortcuts. It does really feel universal.

    Only issue that keeps bugging me is that for some reason the sound quality on any Bluetooth device is trash. €100 headset sounds like a €10 one. An issue I didn’t have with Mint, Ubuntu or Windows. I haven’t had time to investigate it yet though, maybe something is missing in the default installation and is just a matter of installing the right package.

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      6 months ago

      I’m still getting used to the idea of no “panel” (tasks bar),

      I’m using Debian/Plasma and I have a task bar. Maybe it’s optional or depends on environment?

      Now you’re making me think I should get rid of my task bar…

      • invictvs@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        Yeah, I completely forgot that during the install Debian gave me multiple choice for the DE. I think I am using GNOME. I don’t remember if I chose it on purpose or it was the default choice and I just rolled with it.

        • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          Gnome is typically the default for Debian, if you want that taskbar here is the doc to install KDE Plasma.

          Essentially:

          sudo apt remove gnome task-gnome-desktop gnome-core gdm -y

# alternatively you could also “sudo apt purge *gnome*” but there is a possibility dependencies may get caught up in this

sudo apt install kde-full kde-plasma-desktop task-kde-desktop sddm -y

# You’ll likely get prompts throughout the install

sudo apt autoclean
sudo apt autoremove -y
sudo reboot
  • vogi@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Love me some Debian. But I still have to find a proper way to update only some packages to testing or unstable.

    Sway is still on 1.10 and has some problems with Godot for example.