No way, it's like I just walked past a celebrity

This is all the validation I need

Taking this opportunity to personally thank you for making a good logo, I absolutely love the Debian swirl! There are so many boring geometric or single-letter logos out there, the details and texture of the swirl is just so good.

It's a beautiful shade of red, and the intricate little details across the swirl. It's a nice change to the bland, corporate logos we're used to.

🫡Thank you for your service

Wow I'm starstruck! Unsurprised to find the Debian gang here, but still very happy about it!

and they say we don't have celebrities or important people on Lemmy

It's an honor

I've admired this logo for 20 years. Debian has the best logo.

Thanks for your work, it's an awesome logo.

Simple and recognizable. Exactly what a logo is supposed to be. I think it's the best logo in all of OSS. Basically the Nike swoosh of OSS, everyone else has to put the name of the software on the logo so people will know what it is. But you see the swirl, and you instantly know it's Debian without any explanation.

Mint has so far been the only distro that had 100% of my laptop working. There are other systems that come close, even past 99, but there's always that one little annoyance. Not with Mint.

Its just so simple. I see people complaining about getting Nvidia drivers to work on Linux, with Mint it takes like two clicks.

It Just Works. I started with it and have never felt any need to switch.

Yes, it is!

Ubuntu was a fantastic distribution to start early on. Especially in the pre-10.x days there weren't many beginner friendly ones. Your alternatives were Debian with very outdated software, SuSE which was kind of OK, Fedora which was also quite unstable and lacking packages (remember hunting RPMs on the old RPMfusion?) or Ubuntu. At some point I'd outgrown Ubuntu and moved on to greener pastures. Nowadays I'm not sure I'd be recommending Ubuntu to new users, Fedora is quite good and without all the snap store shenanigans. Even Debian installation experience is not too bad and it's not lacking too much in software.

Why non-systemd distros? I have heard of not-systemd distros like Artix and Devaun (I think that's how you spell them), but I never bothered looking into why some people prefer them.

Ubuntu is based on Debian Testing (their beta pipeline) and run by a for profit corporation. Ubuntu makes significant changes to Debian to get it to where its easy to use for end users. It has in the past made choices that were extremely unpopular in the open source community, and will make those decisions again in the future.

I would liken it to more like if Debian was a shot of whiskey, Ubuntu is like a whiskey sour. It still has whiskey as a base but enough ingredients have been added and changes have been made that it's its own thing.

Isn't Debian just GNU/Linux with some extra features?

A distro's a distro. You could rip dnf out of Fedora, install apt if you like.

It basically comes down to the default settings/packages shipped, and philosophy.

Ubuntu adds a much different install experience, snaps, and some features good for enterprise out of the box.

That is clearly Ongo Gablogian, the famous art collector.