• Lime66@lemmy.world
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    • Incredibly old and likely no longer updated packages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.

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      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.

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      Relax, guys, Debian and not Debian both have their pros and cons. The variety of options is what’s so beautiful about Linux.