Discussion
Always Debian :-)
I'd love to know the reasons!
No hate. I used it for a while, but after version 12 didnt see the point anymore :(
Mostly cuz of 32 bit support .. and extensive documentation on blogs and forums ..
What changed in 12 ?
Those are great reasons I must admit!
I just lost trust in them at version 12 when they sneakily slipped in proprietary software (installer) among other things, while still advertising that they are "FREE SOFTWARE".
Not as bad as Ubuntu, but the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Im with Arch after a deacde or more of using Mint and Trisquel.
Only Trisquel is truly FLOSS.
Arch also includes proprietary blobs in the Linux Kernel like most distros, but they're not lying or misleading anyone. And besides the kernel, everything else is up to me what packages I install.
Nice and lightweight for older machines too.
I am not much bought into idea of pure FOSS .. I think Debian is kinda annoying as first thing people do is allow non-free :-)
never tried Arch ..cuz ..as you said "if you want LIFE " :-) which I do .. but maybe one day !
On customizability .. I was (once upon a time) deep into that rabbithole :-) .. wasted lot of time with NixOS .. good learnings but at the end if the day , I realized I only use fbterm, ssh , vim, tmux and w3m .. so plain Debian on a 32 bit machine ..hard wired with internet .. big mug of coffee .. ton of tobacco .. LIFE :-)
"I use arch by the way..." lol
Started Void. To mee it seems like inbetween. Easy yo set up. Most things go without effort. But still many programs one does not find out of the box.