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Re: why Debian?

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On 11/14/21 4:56 AM, Thanos Katsiolis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am new to the Debian distribution and I would like to hear opinions from
> experienced users on why someone should choose them as OS.
> The reasons I chose them is that Debian is considered a stable and reliable
> OS (the policy of the OS is not to include as many and as much quickly as
> possible new features), and that it has a large and dependable community.


It would help if you described your computing environment, what you plan 
to do with Debian, and what criteria are important to you.


I have a SOHO network with various computers and devices running 
Windows, macOS, Debian, FreeBSD, Android, iOS, Raku, and other embedded 
OS's.  I chose Debian with Xfce for desktops and laptops because it 
mostly works OOTB on most x86-64 machines.  I chose FreeBSD for servers 
because the BSD license and CDDL are compatible, so FreeBSD fully 
supports OpenZFS OOTB.


Over  the years, Debian Stable, Old Stable, and Old Old Stable have been 
reasonably stable ("code does not change") and reliable ("computer does 
not malfunction").  I typically run Old Stable or Old Old Stable -- 
currently, Debian 10 and 9.


Unfortunately, over the past year or so, Debian with Xfce and my typical 
set of desktop applications (Firefox, Thunderbird, Thunar, and Terminal) 
have become unreliable.  I experience intermittent, random mouse and/or 
keyboard events that jump the mouse pointer, select regions of the 
screen, resize, move, and close windows, activate pop-up dialogs, etc.. 
  The problem is more frequent on Debian 10 than on Debian 9.  The 
malfunctions seem to come in storms, and I have yet to find a way to 
trigger them.  I need to try Debian 11.


The last time I ran FreeBSD with Xfce as a daily driver (4+ years ago), 
it took a non-trivial amount of work to set up and the result was 
lacking features and panel items that were included with Debian.  So, I 
went back to Debian.


As for community, I participate in the debian-user mailing list and the 
freebsd-questions mailing list.  The FreeBSD list seems to have more 
people with computer science education.  The Debian list tends to have 
more digressions.  The users on both are reasonably helpful.


David

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why Debian? Thanos Katsiolis <kls.thanos@gmail.com> - 2021-11-14 14:00 +0100
  Re: why Debian? Karthik <karthikgatiganti@gmail.com> - 2021-11-14 15:00 +0100
    Re: why Debian? phoebus phoebus <frphoebus@yahoo.fr> - 2021-11-14 15:20 +0100
    Re: why Debian? Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> - 2021-11-14 18:40 +0100
  Re: why Debian? Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2021-11-14 17:00 +0100
  Re: why Debian? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-11-14 17:10 +0100
  Re: why Debian? Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-11-14 19:30 +0100
  Re: why Debian? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-11-15 05:50 +0100
  Re: why Debian? 황병희 <soyeomul@doraji.xyz> - 2021-11-15 07:50 +0100
  Re: why Debian? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-12-02 12:10 +0100
    Re: why Debian? Piper H <potthua@gmail.com> - 2021-12-02 13:10 +0100
      Re: why Debian? Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2021-12-02 14:00 +0100
      Re: why Debian? Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> - 2021-12-02 16:10 +0100
      Re: why Debian? Karthik <karthikgatiganti@gmail.com> - 2021-12-02 17:00 +0100
        Re: why Debian? Piper H <potthua@gmail.com> - 2021-12-02 21:10 +0100
          Re: why Debian? Karthik <karthikgatiganti@gmail.com> - 2021-12-03 00:10 +0100
            Re: why Debian? Piper H <potthua@gmail.com> - 2021-12-03 02:00 +0100
      Re: why Debian? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-12-02 21:00 +0100
        Re: why Debian? Piper H <potthua@gmail.com> - 2021-12-02 21:10 +0100
      Re: why Debian? SAIFI <saifi@strikr.io> - 2021-12-03 06:40 +0100
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