• Da Oeuf@slrpnk.net
    22 days

    Great choice. And if you do ever find yourself in a hurry for the latest version of something, there is flatpak and appimage.

    It is a wonderful time to be a Linux user.

    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
      22 days

      To enable flatpak in Discover go to its settings page and at the bottom click “install flatpak backend” or something like that. Then when thats done you need to enable “flathub” on the same page as the package source for flatpak. You might have to restart in between or after these steps if it doesnt show up.

      Only “flatpak” though, not “snap” because that sucks.

  • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
    22 days

    , but I actually like Debian’s slow update cycle,

    That’s one of debian’s strengths and an often overlooked feature that I believe many people would love as well. I even had a professor migrating from windows to debian simply because he’s, in his words: “tired of things changing all the time without my permission. I want a system that stays the same for as long as possible and barely changes”. Debian was like a natural choice for him. I thought he would be asking me for help in the transition, but he said he’s “ok and learning by searching on the internet”, and that he’s “investing some time on earning it, because the guarantee of minimal changes makes the it an investment, instead of a waste of time”.

    • non_burglar@lemmy.world
      22 days

      I also find value in this.

      Lately I get a lot of flack for running Debian with xfce but it looks and acts the same every time.

      I’ve been through my various stages of customizing and living on the bleeding edge. But now that i have my wish and I work in linux daily, I just want the os to stay out of the way.

  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    22 days

    As an Arch user (btw) Debian is more than respectable. Truly one of the greatest distros of all time alongside Fedora, OpenSuse, and Alpine

    :3

  • Epzillon@lemmy.world
    22 days

    Only downside ive seen with Debian is slower rollouts and some packages missing in their repos. Its because they prioritize stability.

    If Debian fits your use case theres no reason not to stay. I ditched Debian after I accidentally created my frankendebian monster which i was way too unknowledgable to save back then.

    And hey, welcome to Linux!

    • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
      22 days

      Slow package updates are a worthy complaint but largely solved with the advent of fancy package managers like flatpak, appimage, and nix.

  • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
    22 days

    Debian is a great choice.

    I think the majority of modern distros are all fine for beginners really.

    The advantage with debian is the very large user base and ecosystem - you won’t encounter a problem that someone else hasn’t already solved.

  • Maiq@piefed.socialEnglish
    22 days

    One of my favorite things about linux is the freedom to choose. There is not a perfect one size fits all starterpack. Everyone has different needs and expectations which is why the starter distro questions have so many different answers. Those answers aren’t wrong as they meet the needs from the presenters point of view.

    Debain is a great choice. Nothing wrong with debain. I use it for my media server.

    Welcome to your linux journey.

    • LeLachs@lemmy.ml
      22 days

      I did not know that they have live mediums. Thank you for sharing

    • slabber@lemmy.ml
      22 days

      If your server doesn’t rely on docker I would give FreeBSD a try. I’ve been using Debian for 20 years and moved to FreeBSD a few years ago. Now I can never go back. Not that I don’t like Debian anymore but FreeBSD is a true server system. Simple, fast and stable. And with their jails implementation (something like docker but less obscure) you can easily isolate your services from the rest of the system.

  • sepi@piefed.socialEnglish
    22 days

    I started with Debian as a noob many years ago. Still using it. It’s good. I distro-hopped a bit in my first few years but ended up with Debian. Now I’ve a mix of Ubuntu (which in my mind is debian), Debian and raspbian.

    There’s other distros that are good too, this is just what worked for me.

    • jcarax@beehaw.org
      22 days

      Yup, I jumped around a lot early on, but Debian was home. It’s hard to break if you follow the Debian way, and it’s definitely stable. I still use it for server and lab stuff, because I can write a doc and come back in 18 months and is still largely reproducible.

      I’ve used a LOT of distros over the years, and Arch is home now (technically Cachy at the moment), but Debian is probably my second favorite. Fedora is 3rd, for user friendly polish.

  • Kuadhual@lemmy.world
    22 days

    I used to live in a place where the internet was very fast, so I could use Arch Linux with its large daily updates without any problems. Then I moved to a place where the internet is very slow, and continuing to use Arch Linux is no longer an option. As a result, I switched from Arch to Debian, and the first thing I noticed is that I rarely have updates.