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Re: why Debian?

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Thanos Katsiolis <kls.thanos@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

Isn't that enough? I guess I'd say the policy of Debian is that it
works. Personally, I had used Linux off and on in the 1990s but there
were issues. I was otherwise a Unix user in school and work, mostly
Sun's Solaris but also Digital and HP and some others I don't remember
any more.

A friend and colleague recommended Debian around late '90s and I
installed Debian, 2.0 Hamm I think. It just worked, as in I ran the same
installation on my ever morphing desktop computer for almost a decade
until I made the switch to 64-bit. I guess that "new" 64-bit
installation is now over a decade old then. Updates work and it does't
barf when I change hardware.

For sure I have other computers these days and my desktop alone has
Windows 10 and Arch Linux in addition to Debian. But mostly I use
the desktop and the Debian on it.

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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
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    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
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            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
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