Both.
Debian for anything that has to run unattended for a long time without requiring much care. Arch for the desktop.
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Devuan.
FTFY
openSUSE.
Arch. I'm still having nightmares from trying to install up to date versions of user-space software onto Debian in 2008-ish, usually leading to having to compile it from source, usually leading to having many compiler errors due to make and GCC being quite a few versions behind. All the help I got in those days through forums are links to WinXP ISO torrents, and telling me that to stop ruining their "hobby OS".
Me: "Numbers or mechanics?"
Impotent or idempotent ?
I would answer debian, but I want her to say arch.
I want my girlfriend to be smarter than me ok!?
Whenever I hear Debian, I always imagine a newb OS called Nubian and damn that'd slap as a name.
All text would be in Papyrus font.
Is this like asking if looking for a fling or a long term relationship?
This hurts because Debian is named after a couple (Debra Lynn and Ian Murdock) who got married and divorced and Ian passed away. Going with Debian is a lifetime of hurt.
On the other hand Arch girls are described in Rick James's song "Superfreak".
"Debian or Arch?"
spoiler
RPMs are better than DEBs
I'm fine with .ebuild and .xbps, thnx.
Yeah I get some good RPMs on my 2001 Honda Civic.
Elaborate.
Reverse UNO
NixOS* but yes
Hence why so many of us are gay for each other.
Iβm all for touching as long as we donβt sudo
fuck. um, what if i sudo while you rm rf
She's just baffled that anyone who knows those two distributions could be so dense as to whittle down the vast infinite sea of possible options to just two incredibly boring ones. She would have cried next if he hadn't done it.
Also, OpenSUSE.
well the vast majority of those are just arch and debian with extra steps, with the occasional fedora based or independent distro
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Her: it depends on who's asking and their usecase
- Pls marry me (pls)
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