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Be careful with taking that too far ;). That modularity and customizability was slippery slope for me--I defected from Debian to Arch in months.
And you know what comes next after Arch... ...Gentoo.
I've been tempted to go down that route before...
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Apparently dozing and posting doesn't work. Here's the graphic I was talking about: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Di...
Very neat indeed, though its sheer size seemed to cause indigestion in every app I tried to display it with (they could display it OK, but try to zoom in/out and prepare to wait...). It would be even cooler if there was some indication of popularity over time as well, e.g. via variation in line thickness or something (...image gets even bigger... ><).
I recently switched from Ubuntu to Debian, and I keep wondering to myself why I didn't switch much sooner. The lack of any integration with a specific desktop environment, and having pure GNU and Linux underneath a pure DE is something that is really quite satisfying. It gives you modularity and customizability without having anything break or feel out of place; something that often happened to me while switching DEs…
Be careful with taking that too far ;). That modularity and customizability was slippery slope for me--I defected from Debian to Arch in months.
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Be careful with taking that too far ;). That modularity and customizability was slippery slope for me--I defected from Debian to Arch in months.
And you know what comes next after Arch... ...Gentoo.
But I can't go to anything but Arch. I have opensuse on my grandparents PC and I so desperately want to put Arch on it since managing the legacy in any of the distros that aren't Arch (ie, /boot/grub and /boot/grub2 on a standard install, init scripts mixed with systemd units, xinetd + systemd, etc) makes me feel like its 2003 instead of 2013. I sometimes put dual boot Ubuntu / Windows on some of my freelance IT customers to let them pick what they like and keep the other as a failsafe, but tweaking Ubuntu now feels like a chore. I still giggle with glee when installing a new Arch box though.
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Be careful with taking that too far ;). That modularity and customizability was slippery slope for me--I defected from Debian to Arch in months.
And you know what comes next after Arch... ...Gentoo.
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The first Debian "release" I installed was called "Slink-and-a-half." It was Slink with some important Potato packages backported by VA Linux. I quickly upgraded it using dist-upgrade to unstable, which was potato at the time (testing didn't exist yet).
I built "slink and a half" and I'm lying in a tent in a field in Switzerland after the main Debian b-day party, bonfire, triple rainbow (no kidding!), etc. Wave!
Thanks for all your hard work, and especially for introducing me to Debian. Have a wonderful Debian birthday!
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And you know what comes next after Arch... ...Gentoo.
I chose FreeBSD... I wish that I would have tried FreeBSD years sooner, but I guess it's better late than never.
I recently switched from Ubuntu to Debian, and I keep wondering to myself why I didn't switch much sooner. The lack of any integration with a specific desktop environment, and having pure GNU and Linux underneath a pure DE is something that is really quite satisfying. It gives you modularity and customizability without having anything break or feel out of place; something that often happened to me while switching DEs…
I recently switched from Ubuntu to Debian, and I keep wondering to myself why I didn't switch much sooner. The lack of any integration with a specific desktop environment, and having pure GNU and Linux underneath a pure DE is something that is really quite satisfying. It gives you modularity and customizability without having anything break or feel out of place; something that often happened to me while switching DEs…
I switched to Debian (Wheezy specifically) after 8 or so years of using Fedora (initially Fedora Core ) with a year or two of Gentoo in 2008-9 or so. It really is a breath of fresh air. You don't realize it initially but Fedora/Ubuntu are suffocating.. rapid releases changing things that didn't need to be changed (I have zero objection to actual improvements, that is the reason I used Fedora for so long (and Gentoo d…
I recently switched from Ubuntu to Debian, and I keep wondering to myself why I didn't switch much sooner. The lack of any integration with a specific desktop environment, and having pure GNU and Linux underneath a pure DE is something that is really quite satisfying. It gives you modularity and customizability without having anything break or feel out of place; something that often happened to me while switching DEs…
Is it possible to run Steam on Debian? It's supported on Ubuntu, and I'm wondering if that extends to debian as well.