During my first few years using linux in university I was switching distros every 2-6 months. I was Goldilocks desperately seeking the one elusive distro that would be just right.
But eventually the thrill of trying new things wore off and I was running out of distros to sample without going into the weird ones and joke ones. I just wanted something that met all of my needs and most of my wants out of the box. For a while that was Ubuntu, but then they started adding lenses, cutting out killer features, and forcing me to use their app store to install certain things.
Since then I've just been running Debian (the version packaged with non-free firmware, of course) for its maturity, stability, and the general availability of .deb packages for any software not found in the official repos.
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During my first few years using linux in university I was switching distros every 2-6 months. I was Goldilocks desperately seeking the one elusive distro that would be just right.
But eventually the thrill of trying new things wore off and I was running out of distros to sample without going into the weird ones and joke ones. I just wanted something that met all of my needs and most of my wants out of the box. For a while that was Ubuntu, but then they started adding lenses, cutting out killer features, and forcing me to use their app store to install certain things.
Since then I've just been running Debian (the version packaged with non-free firmware, of course) for its maturity, stability, and the general availability of .deb packages for any software not found in the official repos.
That is one good point you state here Reeses, I did not come across software that was not available for debian.