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Does anyone choose Debian?
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this post was submitted on 29 May 2026
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DistroWatch isn't an OS ranking system, its a "How many hits" or " "how many recent users claimed to use" a certain system.
This has no real correlation to actual deployed OS in the world.
It's more of a buzz ranking; like a lot of people went to Debian recently because of Canonical being a less disrable OS builder. So Distrowatch got a ton of Debian searches at the beginning of that switch, but probably way less now.