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I love Debian, but...

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Re: I love Debian, but...

#21 Post by 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.
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#22 Post by LE_746F6D617A7A69 »

DebbyIan wrote: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 ...
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Re: I love Debian, but...

#23 Post by 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.
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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
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Re: I love Debian, but...

#24 Post by cds60601 »

bedtime wrote: 2018-08-21 16:47 Friends and lovers come and go...

But mother will always be there.



He'll be back. :roll:
Indeed - this has come to pass and I have since moved back to Debian. Well played and well said :)
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#25 Post by MALsPa »

I've been running both Debian and Arch, for quite a few years now. It's been great having both available. They're my two favorite distros, and I can't see myelf dropping either one. It certainly doesn't have to be one or the other.

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#26 Post by cds60601 »

MALsPa wrote: 2021-09-13 01:18 I've been running both Debian and Arch, for quite a few years now. It's been great having both available. They're my two favorite distros, and I can't see myelf dropping either one. It certainly doesn't have to be one or the other.
Oh, Arch hasn't completely been removed. I still have it with my old config in a VM just to keep up with it a bit.
But you are right - I have not had an interest to go after any other distro beside the two mentioned.
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