Neko the gamer@sh.itjust.works to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 1 year agoi hate that it's very often like thissh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square207fedilinkarrow-up1813arrow-down130
arrow-up1783arrow-down1imagei hate that it's very often like thissh.itjust.worksNeko the gamer@sh.itjust.works to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square207fedilink
minus-squareLime66@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down4·edit-21 year ago Incredibly old and likely no longer updated packages the devs are expected to backport their security fixes to these packages, which can create an outrageous amount of work I don’t understand why would people not be on debian does not compute I don’t understand why someone would want to be on Debian, what actual advantage does it have.
minus-squarethisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoStability, slow changes, predictable, strong history, lots of distributions are based on it, the list goes on and on. I don’t use it but it’s kinda stupid to question it’s relevant qualities considering how much it’s brought to the Linux community.
minus-squareLime66@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·1 year agoLots of distros are based on Ubuntu, does that make Ubuntu an amazing distro?
minus-squarethisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoThey are based on Debian then, not Ubuntu. They are just reworked.
minus-squaremolochthagod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoRelax, guys, Debian and not Debian both have their pros and cons. The variety of options is what’s so beautiful about Linux.
minus-squareHonytawk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoFor the .deb packages, obviously. Did you not read the post?
I don’t understand why someone would want to be on Debian, what actual advantage does it have.
Stability, slow changes, predictable, strong history, lots of distributions are based on it, the list goes on and on. I don’t use it but it’s kinda stupid to question it’s relevant qualities considering how much it’s brought to the Linux community.
Lots of distros are based on Ubuntu, does that make Ubuntu an amazing distro?
They are based on Debian then, not Ubuntu. They are just reworked.
Relax, guys, Debian and not Debian both have their pros and cons. The variety of options is what’s so beautiful about Linux.
For the .deb packages, obviously.
Did you not read the post?