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      This list is accurate except for Debian. Debian can do no wrong.

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        @potentiallynotfelix@iusearchlinux.fyi @dan@upvote.au

        I have to agree with you on Debian as far as stability is concerned. Debian is a top-notch server OS.

        But they removed a few of my favorite desktop programs from their stable repo and that had me fuming !!! I only want to run stable, not testing. They also compartmentalized Python’s pip3 into local user virtualenv, which I do not like since I use sand-boxing to invoke pip apps anyway.

        That said, after many years of trying different distros I always kept coming back to Debian and that is where I’m staying.

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          I’ve only had bad experiences with debian. First off the installer is broken, second apt is a fucking mess compared to the best package manager, emerge, and third I’ve had bootloader issues(or lack of bootloader issues) when trying to install.

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        No way, Debian stable is completely useless as a distro unless you’re in to time machines and like the feeling of being stuck 5 years behind the curve

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          If you have a device with a specific usage, then its more than perfect as its stable.

          Only need to draw and write documents on a portable convertable? Suits nicely.

          Want to code on that thing too? Uh. Idk. Use other distro, would be much easier as debian sucks in this category.

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          Run Debian testing or get packages from backports if you need newer packages. It’s still more stable than a rolling distro.

          Debian stable is great if you value stability over everything else, for example on a server, or a desktop PC you want to “just work”. Major updates happen around once every 2 years, not 5 years.

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      CoconutOS is the one and only true OS and everyone should be using it and everyone else is wrong.

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      I’ve known some fantastic developers that used Nano as their primary editor. It supports syntax highlighting, linting, and bracket matching (jumping to the matching opening bracket when a closing one is selected, and vice versa), which is enough for some people.

      Sure, it’s no micro, but it’s already installed practically everywhere.

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      Why we have to care much about software usage. This is the current issue of linux communities, which decrease user qualities.

      Our enemy Microsoft and other “big tech” laugh people like these. They are using linux just like they use windows, even bring the bad, flawed windows culture to linux.

      Don’t let the enemy to laugh at us.

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    Hate the irrational hate for Nvidia, Wayland or some desktop . I’m just out here trying to help others figure out their problem and some asshole comments"Nvidia doesn’t work on wayland", “just get an amd card”, “Wayland will never work” or “gsync doesn’t work in Linux with multiple monitors”.

    All of them are equally absurd, the last one largely true on xorg for any GPU. Xorg doesn’t do mixed frame rates. Also it doesn’t help the person who is using an Nvidia card because there are solutions for most issues. Those issues are just not well understood because there was a time Nvidia drivers just didn’t work on wayland etc.

    I hate gatekeepers and purist that just make anyone who might be new to the platform feel attacked or alienated. No one cares about your ideologies if they’re not asking and the idiots that parot it doesn’t prove anything other than your part of the loud minority. Just being kind to one another and being understanding of other peoples decisions can go a long way to growing a healthy supportive community.

    I’m still a little frustrated about the behavior of people when I was trying to help someone setup hardware video acceleration in their browser. And another that wanted to use a different distro but found Nvidia worked best on arch for him.

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      As a developer, I really don’t like how Wayland has fractured the ecosystem. Competing immature protocols are still all over the place while the immobility of x11 has spoiled us for years. It’s getting better, but in the meantime I can still write an x11 app which will work mostly everywhere (thanks to xwayland), whereas a wayland app may not work everywhere (not on X11, and not on compositors which don’t implement the right combinations of protocols).