I love Debian, but...

[cuckooflew]

I love Debian, it is fun to play with, great toy, but for serious work Minix 3 is my choice, all though OpenBsd is what I have on my desktop. Various versions of Debian are all on QEMU VM's , with OpenBsd as host. I enjoy playing with Debian, but I am a bad boy and I break it a lot which is why the VM's is my best option. Before Debian 8, I did use Debian as my main desktop system, particularly Debian 6 and 7, ...I think Debian 6 (squeeze) was the best version of Debian,but I suppose that is getting into another topic.
Debian 1.1 was a interesting version, I have it on a VM but the VM is on a old USB drive, and I don;t play with it much any more, any way, I do enjoy Debian, love it, but love my wife more

[Lysander]

Friends and lovers come and go...

But mother will always be there.



He'll be back.

LOL - how true these words came to pass. Now, if I can only get you to tell me the next set of winning Lotto numbers
In all seriousness (and truth be told) I suspect I always knew I would be back. I won't go into the details as many of us already know and did know the reasons.
But - it IS nice to be back in the Debian-space again.

Same here, I left Debian for Slackware - for the learning experience and the 'challenge' in early 2018, first on my netbook and then on my primary machine.

Christmas 2019 I was back on Debian.

[DebbyIan]

You really only need one distro.
The main decider for which distro to use is package management. There are just two kinds - Either build packages on the fly or use prebuilt packages. If packages have already been built in repos then it makes a lot more sense to use those instead instead of rebuilding packages on the fly.

No one distro will cover all your superficial requirements for an indefinite amount of time.

[cuckooflew]

If I

really only need one distro

AND

No one distro will cover all your superficial requirements for an indefinite amount of time.

Then how can this be It just is not making sense, perhaps not true.

[DebbyIan]

Best sticking with Windows to ease your dillema.

[cuckooflew]

I think that is just plain bad advice, Why are you promoting Windows ? I don't have a dilemma any way.
Besides , I don't even use any distro as my main OS, the OS I use does have all the programs I need, so why would I need something else ? I will answer that myself, I get bored, and that is why I have some linux distros, including Debian, on VM's, they are my tinker toy's, but any way, sorry to hear about your dillema,
what is a dillema any way ? I love Debian, but I like OpenBsd better.

[LE_746F6D617A7A69]

Best sticking with Windows to ease your dillema.

Obviously this was a joke (I think)

Linux distribution is just an Operating System which is offering a set of pre-compiled binary applications.

Many of the newcomers to Linux are thinking that Linux is similar to Windows -> You can download any crapware without veryfying what it is actually doing with Your PC and with Your data ...

I think that the biggest problem for former Windows users is that they don't understand that Linux-based systems offer a true freedom - and a true freedom can be problematic for people who were born as a slaves ...

[cuckooflew]

Obviously this was a joke (I think)

I think so to, but I would not be able to "stick with windows", since I have never used it on my hardware, unless way back when it was 1.1 , and I did give it a try, I quickly realized that it was not suitable for serious use, and never tried it again, but any way that is another topic all together.
Debian 6 had everything I needed, 7 did too, then 8 and they add things that I don't want or need. so
any way, I loved Debian, but it took a bad turn, so I had to find something else, none of the other distros satisfied me either, any way, I suppose that is another topic as well.
========P.S. FWIW:

Just can't beat it (up-time currently is 81 days).

Yes I can

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~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 7.6 (wheezy)
Release:        7.6
Codename:       wheezy
cuckooflew@debian:~$ uptime
 13:44:44 up 136 days,  9:34,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
cuckooflew@debian:~$