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Former distrohoppers, where did you settle down?

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Which one(s) and why?

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TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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Debian. Seemed like the most generic “Linux” there is. Nothing special, nothing weird. Just Linux. Gray, boring, system defaults Linux.

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acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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It’s funny cause it started out as one of the most opinionated Linux distros.

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ares35@kbin.social
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still is, and always has been. and that’s not a bad thing.

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apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca
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It helps when your opinions become the gold standard

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f00f/eris@startrek.website
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And because of that, custom configurations are wonderfully easy to make, technical issues are rare, and the few issues you do experience are quite possible to solve. Which is why I settled on Debian.

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Lokisan@lemmy.zip
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I went from years of using Arch to Debian. I’ve been tired of the rolling release system and their massive updates. Maybe I was using it wrong but after years my OS was a giant blob with gigabytes of updates every week. I choose Debian for the same reason as you and also because of the stability. If I want the latest version of a package I use Flatpak.

It just works! Unless there something with Nvidia. Yeah fuck them!

I miss AUR though

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