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i hate that it's very often like this (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 10 months ago by nekothegamer to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)
  • Incredibly old and likely no longer updated packages
  • the devs are expected to backport their security fixes to these packages, which can create an outrageous amount of work

I don't understand why would people not be on debian does not compute

I don't understand why someone would want to be on Debian, what actual advantage does it have.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Stability, slow changes, predictable, strong history, lots of distributions are based on it, the list goes on and on. I don't use it but it's kinda stupid to question it's relevant qualities considering how much it's brought to the Linux community.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Also don't forget that Debian is completely community driven, unlike Redhat's distros which face some controversy.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lots of distros are based on Ubuntu, does that make Ubuntu an amazing distro?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They are based on Debian then, not Ubuntu. They are just reworked.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They are based on both in that case

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Is it using APT? If so, guess what....

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Relax, guys, Debian and not Debian both have their pros and cons. The variety of options is what's so beautiful about Linux.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

For the .deb packages, obviously.

Did you not read the post?