• qwertilliopasd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      13 days ago

      But I want my computer for dicking around in the garage, mowing the lawn. and getting a fresh beer. Involuntary dad noises are the prelude for all that. This is the best ad copy for a distro I’ve ever heard. Next you’re gonna tell me it’s predictable and stable and stoically gets things done.

  • _cnt0@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    28·
    14 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.

      • _cnt0@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        8·
        14 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·
          14 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·
      13 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·
        13 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·
          13 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!

  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netEnglish
    12·
    14 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
    9·
    13 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.

  • hushable@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    14 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)

  • fennesz12@feddit.dkEnglish
    8·
    13 days ago

    I’ve always loved debian. There’s a reason it’s a favorite on servers, and so many distros are built on it. Stable, reliable, gets the job done really well. As long as the job doesn’t require the newest packages.