I have to agree with you on Debian as far as stability is concerned. Debian is a top-notch server OS.
But they removed a few of my favorite desktop programs from their stable repo and that had me fuming !!! I only want to run stable, not testing. They also compartmentalized Python’s pip3 into local user virtualenv, which I do not like since I use sand-boxing to invoke pip apps anyway.
That said, after many years of trying different distros I always kept coming back to Debian and that is where I’m staying.
I’ve only had bad experiences with debian. First off the installer is broken, second apt is a fucking mess compared to the best package manager, emerge, and third I’ve had bootloader issues(or lack of bootloader issues) when trying to install.
Are you sure you downloaded the ISO with non+free included?
For the longest time Debian kept separate ISOs for the non+free drivers, boot stuff, etc. and the user had to search the site for them. Recently with the latest release of Debian Bookworm the Debian maintainers stopped separating them and put the non+free stuff in the main ISOs. If it was more than a few months ago that you tried installing that could be the reason you had problems. I’m not saying that it is, but it could be.
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I have to agree with you on Debian as far as stability is concerned. Debian is a top-notch server OS.
But they removed a few of my favorite desktop programs from their stable repo and that had me fuming !!! I only want to run stable, not testing. They also compartmentalized Python’s pip3 into local user virtualenv, which I do not like since I use sand-boxing to invoke pip apps anyway.
That said, after many years of trying different distros I always kept coming back to Debian and that is where I’m staying.
I’ve only had bad experiences with debian. First off the installer is broken, second apt is a fucking mess compared to the best package manager, emerge, and third I’ve had bootloader issues(or lack of bootloader issues) when trying to install.
Are you sure you downloaded the ISO with non+free included?
For the longest time Debian kept separate ISOs for the non+free drivers, boot stuff, etc. and the user had to search the site for them. Recently with the latest release of Debian Bookworm the Debian maintainers stopped separating them and put the non+free stuff in the main ISOs. If it was more than a few months ago that you tried installing that could be the reason you had problems. I’m not saying that it is, but it could be.