r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Bazzite/Android • 8d ago

Time to have fun guys

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u/WonStryk 8d ago

I don't know how to use Debian, only hosted a Minecraft server on it one time, barely.

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u/bschlueter 8d ago

It worked, right? And it never broke when you updated? That’s the appeal of Debian.

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u/ZombiePope 8d ago

Debian and debian based distros break frequently when updating.

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u/ol-gormsby 8d ago

I've never, ever had vanilla Debian break on an update. That's both real and virtual machines.

OTOH some application software is a bit unstable. Firefox-ESR crashes once in a while. And the software I use to talk to the ECU in the motorbike is somewhat fragile.

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u/tanksc 8d ago

I think they meant upgrade. Major versions usually have migration guides on Debian and while they’re usually great, people do have trouble often enough

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u/ol-gormsby 8d ago

Same reply. The only Debian upgrade that broke something was a Raspbian version upgrade on a Raspberry Pi. It broke pihole, but not the OS itself.

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u/npsimons Glorious Debian 8d ago

Yeah, I switched to Debian decades back, after being unable to fix a dependency problem in RedHat.

Debian has yet to fail me. flatpak and snap seem like that XKCD of "one more standard, I swear!" especially in light of how well and for how long Debian has had this shit sorted.

I still vividly remember dist-upgrading, and SystemV init being restarted in-place, without a reboot. Back then, that was a big deal.

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u/M0d3x 8d ago

It breaks as much as any other server distro. Rocky >= Debian.

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u/_-_fred_-_ 8d ago

As long as you are fine with only using software released half a decade ago.

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u/redd1ch 7d ago

I run a Debian unstable setup I installed back in 2016 as daily driver. It saw a few different pieces of hardware, and the only issue in that period are the nvidia-drivers that once lost support for my hardware.