The sun rising in the morning will never make the news, and that's the problem with Debian marketing; an operating system that's so stable and reliable users tend to forget about it, how is that ever going to grab headlines?
Although I'm on Devuan for obvious reasons, Debian still sets the bar of what a Free operating system should aspire to be.
Congratulations and a heartfelt thanks to all Debian developers and contributors; whatever your motivations, you made the world a better place.
I, too, started out with Slackware -- although, at that time, I think most did.
I used it for a couple years before giving in to everyone who had been telling me about Debian and, finally, I blew away my Slackware and installed Bo.
They were right, I did want to switch to Debian (I just didn't know it until I tried it).
Now, ~23 years later, my workstation and two primary laptops are all running Debian. I've made the switch to Mac twice in the last 12 years or so -- but not for long! At one point I decided I was going to switch to Arch Linux "for good". A short while later, I thought "maybe Fedora would be a better fit". Not long after, I came to my senses and, as I said earlier, I went running back to Debian.
For various reasons, I've got several VMs running "not Debian" and a few that are even running "not Linux" (none running Windows, however!) and I'm a big fan of CentOS/RHEL on the server (and, on occasion, FreeBSD and OpenBSD, whenever they're the best tool for the job).
At this point, though, it would take some extremely compelling reasons to cause me to switch to "not Debian" on my workstation and laptops. It's certainly not perfect and there are a few things I'd change if it were up to me but, all things considered, it's absolutely the best OS for me!
[+] [-] craigsmansion|5 years ago|reply
Although I'm on Devuan for obvious reasons, Debian still sets the bar of what a Free operating system should aspire to be.
Congratulations and a heartfelt thanks to all Debian developers and contributors; whatever your motivations, you made the world a better place.
[+] [-] TheChaplain|5 years ago|reply
Cheers to all debian packagers here on HN, your hours spent make this user have a great time on an OS that just works.
[+] [-] jlgaddis|5 years ago|reply
I used it for a couple years before giving in to everyone who had been telling me about Debian and, finally, I blew away my Slackware and installed Bo.
They were right, I did want to switch to Debian (I just didn't know it until I tried it).
Now, ~23 years later, my workstation and two primary laptops are all running Debian. I've made the switch to Mac twice in the last 12 years or so -- but not for long! At one point I decided I was going to switch to Arch Linux "for good". A short while later, I thought "maybe Fedora would be a better fit". Not long after, I came to my senses and, as I said earlier, I went running back to Debian.
For various reasons, I've got several VMs running "not Debian" and a few that are even running "not Linux" (none running Windows, however!) and I'm a big fan of CentOS/RHEL on the server (and, on occasion, FreeBSD and OpenBSD, whenever they're the best tool for the job).
At this point, though, it would take some extremely compelling reasons to cause me to switch to "not Debian" on my workstation and laptops. It's certainly not perfect and there are a few things I'd change if it were up to me but, all things considered, it's absolutely the best OS for me!
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