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    i hate that it's very often like this (sh.itjust.works)
    submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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    • Incredibly old and likely no longer updated packages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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

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

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

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

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

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

    They are based on both in that case

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

    For the .deb packages, obviously.

    Did you not read the post?