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I use debian btw 🙈
I like debians dad bud 😻
No snaps, no PPK, Stable AF, Steam just works, Even on a Hybrid video card laptop.
It’s more dependable than a hell of a lot of dads.
You’re comparing it to Ununtu, I had shits more dependable that Ubuntu
hah, tell that to a dell g15!
(it has a hardware bug(i think) that makes it freeze all the time when in hybrid video card mode in linux)
interesting. my 9000 series all run fine on https://wiki.debian.org/NVIDIA Optimus
as always with hardware though, ymmv
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.
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.
He only gets off the couch every other year, too.
😭😭😭 debian is a treasure and we will all be worse off if you succeed in bullying it
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.
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.
Fedora KDE for my personal machines, Debian for my servers
Hello fellow KDE enjoyer.
get this, what if your daily driver needed as little maintenance as possible?
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.
I game without problems on Debian Stable for years. Everyone keeps saying that and I didnt have a single problem because of “old packages”
You likely have old hardware and play old games. Which is fine on Debian.
Try playing day 1 releases of major titles on brand new hardware weeks after it releases.
It’s not fun.
Yes I rarely play day one releases, but I did with some titles, from the top of my head there was Tony Hawk Pro Skater remastered, Lies of P, Baldurs Gate 3 and Path of Excile 2.
It worked pretty good, what exact package is it that you are looking for that makes gaming on Debian impossible in regards to something like PopOs or Ubuntu, I mean you do realize that they are Debian systems right? Of course if I get a RTX 5090 on day one, I will run into issues, but I am using AMD Hardware, I don’t really have any problems. But I would argue, that running on day one hardware with a fresh 9000 Dollar RTX 6090, you are not an average user nor are you an average gamer.
What’s your hardware? I have an NVIDIA GeForce 5090, and I got the impression that debian wouldn’t be the best choice from my searches. I went with pop os instead, and while Wayland and driver support works great (Safe for some vendor specific issues like LCD and sensors not working), cosmic is honestly too much of a hassle to use right now.
It depends on the games you play and how long you wait after a game’s release. Maybe if your GPU is from NVIDIA, AMD/Radeon or Intel. I use Ubuntu LTS on my main PC and every once in a while, there is a game that just doesn’t work until I install newer drivers and kernels (the newer packages get automatically disabled when you do a major version update, so I can test this about every 2 years). I have no reason to believe that this would be any different on Debian stable.
Ubuntu is shit, I’d recommend to switch to Debian Stable. You will have less problems.
I do have it installed, even did some gaming with it. It’s not better at gaming. I’ve been considering to switch because I do agree that Canonical definitely sucks more than the Debian project - it’s just that none of the issues that Canonical has make Debian a better gaming distro.
Well if you have less problems on the side its a better overall distro.
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.
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
i still don’t know what to do with my frankendevuan 😭
I would use Debian more if I didn’t have to remember whether to use
aptoryumevery time I ssh’d into a random server on my network.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.
Yeah, or I could put something in the prompt, I’ve considered writing an alias or function so instead of
yumoraptI could just runinstalland 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!
I’ve been using Debian for so many years (damn, I feel so old).
Since 2002 here. Now get off my lawn.
I switched to Debian when version 1.1 was released in 1996 and it’s been Debian since then for me, but you youngsters may stay on my lawn as long as you just don’t litter.
i heard about debian in 02! but i was a sophmore more worried about zsnes on windows ME and trying to grow a mustache.
i rent a lawn
i rent a lawn
Me too (normal where I live, very few people own property in the city here).
As a dad who makes said noises, and a linux devotee, I approve.
Fellow dad who makes said noises here. Debian is my primary OS, and it’s just the way I like it.
Checks out.
I am a dad who makes that sound and also use debian.
Debian is so boring (I love it from the bottom of my hearth and use it in all my servers and personal laptop)
Debían DILFs interact
As a dad who mostly runs Debian… Yeah I can’t deny it.
Still my top preferred for stability though!
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.
I use Aaaaaarrrrrchhhh.
“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.
I run Debian Stale for my Linux servers and love it, and your joke legit made me laugh… I’d say some people need to lighten up and learn to laugh at themselves a little 😅
Proudly running Debian Moldy (aka oldstable) on my servers. Fuck doing major version updates until I absolutely have to.
