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Why is Debian always left out of the distro recommendations? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 day ago by UnfinishedProjects@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I distro hopped for a bit before finally settling in Debian (because Debian was always mentioned as a distro good for servers, or stable machines that are ok with outdated software)

And while I get that Debian does have software that isn't as up to date, I've never felt that the software was that outdated. Before landing on Debian, I always ran into small hiccups that caused me issues as a new Linux user - but when I finally switched over to Debian, everything just worked! Especially now with Debian 13.

So my question is: why does Debian always get dismissed as inferior for everyday drivers, and instead mint, Ubuntu, or even Zorin get recommended? Is there something I am missing, or does it really just come down to people not wanting software that isn't "cutting edge" release?

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[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

The reason I don't recommend it by default is that there is no updater across releases.

The official upgrade process is to modify apt sources files and run upgrade, then full-upgrade, etc.

That's fine for me but it makes it hard to recommend to people who may not be as willing to deal with modifying system files and reading some upgrade notes

[–] kuneho@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

alright, but you have to do it only once in every 10 years, so...

[–] TerraRoot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

If your sources track stable/testing or oldstable, you don't need to change anything, that said I think the offical stance it to track the relase name (trixie bookworm etc)