Re: Why do you use debian?
Posted: 2021-02-04 22:01
Debian is the most stable operating system I've used thus far, and I've tried lots of distros over the years. Freebsd is the only other operating system I use in my day-to-day life.
People here are usually nice if you have done your homework and made an effort to solve your own problems. This forum is also more honest than the fake courtesy and fake "community spirit" you'll find other places.CrackedShell wrote: This Forum is NOT the touchy - feely Manjaro or Ubuntu Forums.
Agreed!! I do appreciate that, even if it can be little intimidating...Hallvor wrote:People here are usually nice if you have done your homework and made an effort to solve your own problems. This forum is also more honest than the fake courtesy and fake "community spirit" you'll find other places.CrackedShell wrote: This Forum is NOT the touchy - feely Manjaro or Ubuntu Forums.
Something that really doesn't follow from windows ways is the idea that each computer is somehow a unique install. With windows everyone thinks that is the case, we were brainwashed by product id's. With linux the system is more fungible. A Debian system can easily graduate to a new system, and ultimately, it is the OS that should outlive the hardware, not vice versa.Marie SWE wrote:So Debian seems to be the only distribution which is a LTS version with a little longer life before EOL.. which I am used to from Windows, I really hate to install and tweak computers from core more than once during a computers lifetime...snip...and a imagebackup of each computer...snip...spending a maximum of 3-4 hours/computer on the first install
//Marie
Hi and thanks for your replyCwF wrote:Something that really doesn't follow from windows ways is the idea that each computer is somehow a unique install. With windows everyone thinks that is the case, we were brainwashed by product id's. With linux the system is more fungible. A Debian system can easily graduate to a new system, and ultimately, it is the OS that should outlive the hardware, not vice versa.Marie SWE wrote:So Debian seems to be the only distribution which is a LTS version with a little longer life before EOL.. which I am used to from Windows, I really hate to install and tweak computers from core more than once during a computers lifetime...snip...and a imagebackup of each computer...snip...spending a maximum of 3-4 hours/computer on the first install
//Marie
So you might want to polish this first computer to your liking, then simply image it and run it it in each of those other 6 computers... in whatever way it can be done...that is more than one way...you don't have to be concerned with 'uniqueness' until you get them talking to each other.
Enjoy.
oh, and the cli is a necessary evil, implying no - we're still not done.
Just a thought, have you tried Sylpheed? I've been using it for years, with very few issues, except every time I reinstall I forget how to set it up for GMailBulkley wrote: For example, years ago I installed Icedove to handle my email, just email. Icedove became Thunderbird and grew. Now it has a calendar and a task manager and a chat function none of which I use or need in an email client. Most alternatives are also bloated. What to do? I've tried a lot of OSs during the past year and find myself stripping stuff I don't want out of them. Bloat is not just a Debian problem. There are some stripped down OSs but they tend to have a steep learning curve and very few packages, if any, in their repositories. I admit to be terrible at installing from source and I loathe dependency hell as we used to call RPMs. Debian's big advantage is a massive repository and easy tools to use them. For now, I'm still here.
Thanks for reminding me. Along time ago I used Sylpheed-Claws. I don't know why I stopped. Maybe I should look at it again.sirfer wrote:Just a thought, have you tried Sylpheed? . . . But yeah, it's an email client and just that, nothing else.
I'm quite a new user, I started with using only GNU/Linux distributions and leaving Windows, around a year ago in October at first I started with Ubuntu because due to complete inexperience I didn't know what to choose but as soon as I discovered Debian I immediately switched to it with some diffycults at first, but in a matter of a few months I managed to understand or at least start to know what to do or not to do for making the system works.