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[–] 52 points 3 months ago (13 children)

Debian is where greybeards go to retire things just work once you configured them and you don't need the helping hand of the AUR as you can just build your own packages with aptbuild.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Shit. I've been on Debian for decades now. Maybe I'm just an old soul... Or I'm just lazy. I don't even configure my DE anymore. The OS install of today will be wiped in no time, so it's not worth being too attached.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Hey! My beard isn’t that… oh, fuck, I guess it is. Where does the time go?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    As a youngblood I have heard of the iron stability of Debian, but simply find it difficult to adopt for gaming-related reasons (both hosting and as a game client).

    I do wish to one day study the greybeards' work for a future project box, however. That knowledge needs to be part of my generation as well, for at least a few of us.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The thing about Debian is that it's really not meant for the bleeding edge, not unless you shim a completely different runtime platform onto it, like Docker or Flatpak (or Proxmox). It shines as a very stable very basic host OS that's limited to just the base functions of the machine and lets the other platform deal with the latest and shiniest releases.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not a greybeard ^(yet)^ but xbps-src would like to have a word.

    Also, Debian is bad for cognitive abilities since if you use it long enough you forget how to configure things. /j

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Debian is for my homelab, where things randomly breaking would ruin the day of multiple family members. Arch is for my personal machines, where things randomly breaking is an excuse to learn more about my hobby

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