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because Snowlinux is a user-friendly operating linux system and GIMP is not. But it is available in the repositories.
GIMP is not user friendly?, thats your subjective opinion, dont forget that GIMP is also used on Windows systems.
It is a very versatile program even if not a simple tool, it is a powerful tool.
Sorry to go offtopic now, but the name of the thread is which branch of Debian you use and not which derivative.
Stable because I need to use my computer to do other things besides maintain it. A few years back I ran my desktop on unstable for a bit. Switched back to stable at the next release (I think it was Lenny) because unstable just changed too fast. I use backports for when I need newer stuff.
I use stable, it' s rock solid and just works fine. If I need new packages I compile myself from testing/sid ( making my .deb packages ) or I use backports.
I have a minor hobby of installing Debian flavors on the partitions of my #1 drive. My current favorite is a Debian Netinstall Stable w/Backports with just what I want and not what somebody else decided I should want.
I'm surprised more people in this thread didn't mention XFCE4 in place of Gnome or KDE. I'm very pleased with its functionality without eating up a big chunk of the desktop (a la WindowMaker). I liked the beauty of Cairo Dock very much, but I had too much trouble getting all of it to work in different installs.
When I did the Netinstalls, I was interested to see that the bare bones choice (basic Linux utilities) adds only 114 files, while adding the "graphic environment" (otherwise known as Gnome) jumps the total to over 1,000.
I use Firefox and LibreOffice to get real work done, so I go to their sites for an up-to-date version when the repositories fall behind.
linuxforever00 wrote:I use Stable for regular desktop usage, web browsing, VLC, Xchat, Audacious, some games, etc.
I hated the 6 month upgrade cycle with Ubuntu.
Can't decide if I want a rolling release or not with testing or unstable or stick with stable.
I don't want to fix things all the time but I would like newer software I think.
If you do not like to break things at all stick with Stable, you could use backports for some newer apps or the Kernel, LibreOffice is in the backports now also is a newer Kernel.
linuxforever00 wrote:I use Stable for regular desktop usage, web browsing, VLC, Xchat, Audacious, some games, etc.
I hated the 6 month upgrade cycle with Ubuntu.
Can't decide if I want a rolling release or not with testing or unstable or stick with stable.
I don't want to fix things all the time but I would like newer software I think.
If you do not like to break things at all stick with Stable, you could use backports for some newer apps or the Kernel, LibreOffice is in the backports now also is a newer Kernel.
After a while with stable, I ended up enabling backports.
What a fresh breeze! Backports really have the best of both worlds: stability and new software.
So I'm now running Squeeze with Iceweasel 5.0, Icedove 3.1 and LibreOffice 3.3.1.
Thanks to everyone who took part in the poll, I think it turned out to be a nice picture of Debian user base.
Don't stop voting and commenting!
rent0n wrote:After a while with stable, I ended up enabling backports.
What a fresh breeze! Backports really have the best of both worlds: stability and new software.
My debian path so far -> Testing(When squeeze was testing) -> sid -> testing(Wheezy) and finally, i realised that latest isnt always the greatest, and here i am running Debian Stable with backports
I'm back to running Old Stable. And that's where I'm going to stay for a while. I have no need to buy new hardware and the newer kernels just don't like my Radeon 9800pro. I can tinker with it. i can futz with it. But Lenny just works. Always has. Also Never been a fan of KDE4. I even went so far as to jump over to PCLinuxOS for a bit. But the rolling release hit the same issue, my Radeon. Eventually that failed too. So pulled out my old Lenny install custom cd's and put it back. I lost Kopete in Yahoo, and Xmms is still MIA but everything else is back. And that's how it'll stay until I find something that really catches my eye. And sorry, Squeeze, not it. Wheezy, ditto.
ghostblader wrote:My debian path so far -> Testing(When squeeze was testing) -> sid -> testing(Wheezy) and finally, i realised that latest isnt always the greatest, and here i am running Debian Stable with backports
Ditto.
The latest may be the greatest, and I DO love to see the distro evolve, but testing does some unexpected things at the moment, so for me it's stable + backports and some virtual machines, sid + various DE's being most used.