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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.

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Been daily driving Arch for 6 months now, but considering moving back to Debian. Not really taking full advantage of the Arch pros (water.house)

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Been daily driving Arch for 6 months now, but considering moving back to Debian. Not really taking full advantage of the Arch pros

While a bleeding-edge kernel is great, I don't particularly need it. pacman is nice, but apt gets the job done too. Has anyone else switched from Arch to @debian? If so, did you miss anything from Arch that Debian couldn't replicate?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The only thing I miss from Arch is the simple packaging structure.
On Debian, you often have to install additional packages to get all functionality you need out of a software. On Arch, everything that belongs to that software is included in the package.
So Debian's huge number of packages in the main repos are also a bit misleading, cause often they are split up into 10 packages for what would be 1 on Arch.
In practice, I had about the same amount of issues with software I need that's missing in the repo on both distros.
But on Arch, the missing package is definitely in the AUR, while on Debian you'll need a Flatpak.