Is Debian the Default LINUX Distro?

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Debian is the only Linux distro that matters for me after years of distro hopping.

Debian as a project is really really the best of the best, but as OS to be installed on the Desktop no need to say is failure, people use Mint don't even know is Debian (even the ubuntu edition, is also Debian in someway), people know Ubuntu but don't Know Debian as an OS; i think the Debian Team should learn a lot with these downstream projects. The installer is confuse to use (the live images come with calamares duh), the DEs a not polished, full of bloat oldold games, no official option for newer and up-to-date experience on the Desktop specially for newer hardware.

Debian live dvds are vey useful, not just for installation but recovery as well.

Heya, Matt, I discovered you only a few weeks back but have grown to thoroughly enjoy your content. Love the others like Drew et al that you bring on as well. About to blast this loud enough to hear throughout the house and listen as I do some [much needed] housework.

I switched to Debian with Mate a few months ago when it's so boring. Nothing ever breaks on it. Literally the white cake with white icing of Linux distributions. I think I'm in love.

I agree that Debian probably won't be different in 20 years. Their focus is on rock solid stability, and the companies and institutions internationally that use Debian depend on that. If you google "who's using Debian" there is a link to Debian's website with a list of all of the governments, science institutions, corporations, and universities that use Debian. I'm pretty sure they don't want it to change. If it ain't broke don't fix it. The list is very impressive. I myself am using Debian 12 just for web browsing and gaming with Steam. I haven't had any problems using Steam Proton to play Windows games in Debian. For me it just works.

I switched from Fedora to debain. For the life of me I can not break debian. I have used arch for a while, arch is really stable but not idiot proof. Debian is stable and idiot proof. I want to try out opensuse but fory main system I am sticking to debian for a while. Fedora is still my baby. I love Fedora but Debian is always my fallback when my baby makes me cry😂 Licencing Linux would be a crime to humanity.😅

I think openSuse is a weird place at the moment, which is the reason I for the moment stay in the fedora side of things. But the name and everything is maybe a really good thing because openSuse uses a lot of Suse, but it is not really the same and so this could be a chance for openSuse to find a new thing. Lets where they are in a year or two. If the ALP thing goes well, and they have a server edition based on that and maybe also some DE's for it alongside tumbleweed and microOs I could see them actually going great in a few years. I think there is really a lot of potential.

I can't find the poll for the next distro testing here on Youtube. Could you please navigate me to where exactly I should be searching?

Can you download and use the variations of the various distros that are based on Debian - in Debian itself?

I dare to say that LMDE, MX Linux, & Sparky Linux are definitely what a Debian Stable distro should be. But all of that aside, I vote yes, regular vanilla Debian needs to be acknowledge as a default distro.

I use LMDE btw

Windows user here i run debian stable KDE since 2019 rock stable, last version of windows for me was windows 7

Good content - as a Linux Ubuntu user , I use it religiously for sdr radio development ( NI usrps). Just the other day I had to reinstall it for issues related to broken packages . I have a second ssd and like to install Debian next to Ubuntu . How to go about it? I didn’t see much YouTube videos on installing Debian next to Ubuntu - also read that installing Debian next to Ubuntu , Debian will not add Ubuntu in the grub . Sounds scary . Your help is appreciated . Thank you

I feel like Debian is the default Linux in the sense of stability and wide deployability, but Fedora is Linus Torvalds' choice for a reason! I think Fedora is sort of the "testbed default" in a lot of ways, it tries to be a Linux default in the sense of trying to take advantage of new features and updates to the Linux kernel. And I say this as someone who uses neither Debian nor Fedora lmao but I recognize what they do for Linux-at-large!

I'm working into switching to Linux. I really wanted to start with Debian, due to its central nature, but had trouble making it work due to relatively recent hardware. Went into stable and experimental, but only unstable managed to boot into the GUI. Ended up giving up on it, at least for now. Maybe the next full release will be on new enough Linux kernel for it to work out of the box.

Quote of the cast: "Professional tip here - don't kick walls!"

I'm on mxLinux which Debian based...super stable and enables me to be more productive (less tinkering and troubleshooting) --> doing real work instead of trying to setup some distros correctly.

I always stuck with Debian or even Debian base distro's. They just fit me perfectly. I only ask two things from a distro. Must be stable and fast, Debian-base distro's never failed me. As long you have fast hardware that works great using Linux. It's going to be fast. I know Debian applications aren't caught up with the times. Debian usually a few versions behind. But, that's where you get the stability at. I'm currently a MX user, which is base on Debian.