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I said I was doing a year of Debian Linux and on Day 60 we have reached the end of the road… .

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47 thoughts on “Debian Linux – Day 60 | The End

  1. I am keeping a Debian stable machine working as a desktop for my mother – 79y old now. This system has been updated and upgraded for about 20 years now.
    None of the original hardware is still on it, even the box, and the fan, but it is the same thing living for 20 years.

    And to top it – I have done all these apt update, upgrade, dist-upgrade mostly remotely via ssh, most of the times few hundred km away, few times while located on another continent…

    And I am not some crazy linux master. I am quite a normal R&D engineer.

    That's how stable and bullet-proof Debian is…!!!

  2. No hate but ill never understand people who switch because a distro is too stable. Isn't that what a distro is for? Its meant to be a platform where you can do whatever you want to do.

  3. I used daily sid on my personal workstations in the latest twenty years with rare glitches from time to time. It is perfectly fine if you install apt-listchanges and apt-listbugs to manage properly upgrades on daily base just to avoid to be triggered by known RC bugs. Usually I find sid much more stable than testing which can miss for weeks some new features due to main migrations. Disclaimer: I'm a Debian Developer, but what I say is even the normal user experience.

  4. I only use Linux I have used Debian since Woody and have never had my system crash. Stable may not be bleeding edge but it works and works well. Stable and secure. If you need updated packages that is what Debian back-ports are for. I had testing on a laptop for a year and that ran well too. Look at the choices for desktop environments and window managers and architecture look in synaptic it has everything you need.

  5. Funny that more people don't recommend it for beginners. I've dabbled in Linux before, but I decided to go with Debian for my first true daily driver distro. Thanks for confirming that I made the right choice! For years and years I bitched about Microsoft trying to wow me with flashy features, "I just want it to work well. Just be an operating system that my apps can run on." Thank you, Debian!

  6. Well, it was almost a year ago, but what I would challenge you to do is to install your beloved Bedrock on top of it and stick with this system for a while adding more and more packages from other distros. I guess nothing can survive this.

  7. Disagree, I'm using Debian stable in my machine, and there are a lot of things that don't work properly, even installing exclusively from Debian official reps. Well… Not A LOT, but yes, there are things that don't work

  8. Watching this make me want to install Debian as the base of my system and try to mess it up. I usually mess up my laptop badly by accident. I have heard that Debian is stable, but I don’t know that it would be that stable — never imagine any os would be that stable. My record are break windows within 4 months (roughly estimate time) unintentional, Arcolinux and ArcolinuxD within about 2 months unintentional.

    I tried Mint, Feren, Centos around some shorter period of time because I don’t like them very much so I did not use them very long.

  9. Debian seems Tare

    I have just finished fixing my grub yesterday. Dual boot with Windows 10 + linux newbie + ArcolinuxD (Arch based distro) + inexperience + very impatience to read through the wiki so I skimmed only the part I thought I need => corrupted system => more than one re-install distros (Mint and Feren) in that partition => broken grub

    After all of the above, I think I need a more stable distro.

  10. Hello, so what? What's up with SID? I did that years ago… (I think we all 😉 ) But it was too annoying then. 😛 Meanwhile, I enjoy the "boredom" of Debian 😀 … and if I want to tinker I go to my Gentoo PC 😉

  11. Debian Unstable is going to very "stable" (very few package changes) at the moment because Buster is getting prepped for release. Give it another month or two and Debian Unstable might be exciting again 😉 I actually switched back to Ubuntu from Debian just so I can use the latest version of GNOME, but I really miss Debian just because of how well it works (I have to reconfigure Ubuntu to be more like my old Debian installation–no snaps, set up Flatpak, etc.).

  12. Heh, yeah. I started with Debian, then after hearing you rave about arch so much, I gave that a try for about a month and was like "Eeek!!" Went running back to Debian, and yeah. For some reason it's crazy stable, even on pentest distros. Kali and Parrot – Oh meh gaaawd.. the best. Of course my home machine is running Mint, cuz that's how I roll. 😉

  13. Nooooooooo!!!😮

    Actually, testing is now going to be stable, as it will released soon. Wait until after this stable been released. Then havock will be onto you.

    At least in a Debian way type of havock. 😜

    Sid is the most Rolling distribution you get with Debian.
    Testing is a mirror of Sid, except when it start to freeze for next Stable.

    And I remember the last time I hade to boot Debian Sid into singel user mode to repair it. It was a break in X11 and it was back in, 2005:ish… Actually, I don't remember when, just what… Sort of. 😜

  14. I have to be honest, I didn't encounter your channel before, and I just clicked because I'm getting into linux stuff and am really interested in getting debian on my computer soon (I have used ubuntu already and raspbian but I'm looking for a long-term linux install to repurpose my old laptop).

    When seeing the title I first thought it was the end of debian, and as I don't follow linux news a lot I was surprised so I clicked. And I don't regret clicking now.

    I really love how you are so disappointed by the sheer stability of Debian, and turn this video into something sad. As a long time windows user trying to get to the dark side, you can't imagine how hard I was laughing through all the video while you're saying things like "It's not even funny, I mean it works, it won't break, and if sometimes I make it break I just revert some changes and it goes back to normal." in a sad voice. Of course I'm a tinkerer and I like to explore the depths of things, and that's why I'm getting interested in Linux, but to see that you can make a mistake and it will forgive you, this is like heaven for a newbie like me. This video really made my day, and I'm definitely going to go for Debian now. Thank you for the laugh, and for the information !

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