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[–] 25 points 9 months ago* (8 children)

Debian is ... fine. It's the Toyota Corolla of distros. It's reliable, it'll likely do what you need it to do. It's not fun or exciting or packed with the latest tech, it just does its job with minimum fuss.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    The new Toyotas aren’t as reliable as before. Slowly getting worse. Which is a shame.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    It's not so much a marvel of engineering as much as "if you make the tech as boring as possible, there's less to go wrong".

    The Germans will sell you a luxury performance SUV with the same highway fuel consumption as the Corolla. Of course the Corolla will be more simple and reliable.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Which is what makes it an excellent server distro. And also why I don't tend to use it on anything with a screen.

    The most messing around I've done with my server after setting it up is update to trixie. I think I might have had to reset it two or three times in the past 6 months for the reason of "I didn't feel like actually troubleshooting"

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