(That’s Dick Van Dyke living it up at 99)

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    22 hours ago

    Kids don’t understand the issues Ubuntu had early on. Especially when you had limited resources on the system, Debian was ol’ reliable for so long.

    But yeah, I’ve regretted the past couple Debian installs I did. Its time has passed.

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    1 day ago

    People should find a better foundation for self-esteem than hating linux distros. They’re mostly ok, and without debian Linux wouldn’t be what it is today

    Preferring a certain distro is fine but why care if others like something else?

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    2 days ago

    Debian is that one guy on a construction site who, despite doing as little as possible each day, somehow is the only thing keeping the company functional.

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    2 days ago

    Eh, they also call Mint a noob distro. I’m not dealing with Arch or smth on my work machine. Screw that Mint is perfect.

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      1 day ago

      There is nothing wrong with using things that “just work” when you need them to.
      Same reason people buy Toyota and Honda.
      My life has enough chaos to handle, without starting my day faffing with Arch for no good reason.

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        23 hours ago

        Well said. Also a Honda and Toyota owner here :). When I started learning Linux there was so much hype around Arch…I installed it and then Meh pretty much like any other Linux, except things weren’t tweaked to function as a cohesive whole. Arch people complaining about btrfs filling drive, or nVidia issues. So I went back to OpenSUSE Leap. It works. Btrfs snapshotting built in to any time you alter system, backend chronjobs for balance and cleanup. nVidia driver hosted directly by nVidia and specific for OpenSUSE. Why would I want life on hard mode.

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      1 day ago

      i’m an absolute beginner, and will install Garuda (arch-based) on my next computer. I also used Tumbleweed, it is pretty good. It was my first linux experience and found it manageable

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    2 days ago

    I actually call Debian itself “old man”, not its users. I don’t know why, but that fits Debian in my mind.

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    2 days ago

    if debian is the old man, what does that make patrick and slackware?