(That’s Dick Van Dyke living it up at 99)

  • Unknown1234_5@lemmy.worldEnglish
    401·
    23 days ago

    Debian is that one guy on a construction site who, despite doing as little as possible each day, somehow is the only thing keeping the company functional.

  • penquin@lemm.ee
    28·
    23 days ago

    I actually call Debian itself “old man”, not its users. I don’t know why, but that fits Debian in my mind.

      • penquin@lemm.ee
        16·
        23 days ago

        Debian to me is like that one old dude that you know, who’s a very good dude, wise as fuck and got his whole figured out.

  • lurklurk@lemmy.world
    19·
    23 days ago

    People should find a better foundation for self-esteem than hating linux distros. They’re mostly ok, and without debian Linux wouldn’t be what it is today

    Preferring a certain distro is fine but why care if others like something else?

  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
    121·
    23 days ago

    Eh, they also call Mint a noob distro. I’m not dealing with Arch or smth on my work machine. Screw that Mint is perfect.

    • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukEnglish
      5·
      22 days ago

      There is nothing wrong with using things that “just work” when you need them to.
      Same reason people buy Toyota and Honda.
      My life has enough chaos to handle, without starting my day faffing with Arch for no good reason.

      • BCsven@lemmy.ca
        3·
        22 days ago

        Well said. Also a Honda and Toyota owner here :). When I started learning Linux there was so much hype around Arch…I installed it and then Meh pretty much like any other Linux, except things weren’t tweaked to function as a cohesive whole. Arch people complaining about btrfs filling drive, or nVidia issues. So I went back to OpenSUSE Leap. It works. Btrfs snapshotting built in to any time you alter system, backend chronjobs for balance and cleanup. nVidia driver hosted directly by nVidia and specific for OpenSUSE. Why would I want life on hard mode.

    • kekmacska@lemmy.zipEnglish
      22·
      23 days ago

      i’m an absolute beginner, and will install Garuda (arch-based) on my next computer. I also used Tumbleweed, it is pretty good. It was my first linux experience and found it manageable

  • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    23 days ago

    if debian is the old man, what does that make patrick and slackware?

  • clif@lemmy.world
    3·
    23 days ago

    I started calling it “Grandma Debian” for some reason.

    … I say this as a Debian user after new versions of Mint failed to accurately detect my RAID size. I tried Ubuntu for giggles, same problem, but Grandma Debian worked perfect out of the box.

    To be fair, it is a software RAID in the BIOS and those are known to be odd.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
      7·
      23 days ago

      currently switching all my rhel derived(fedora, centos, rocky, alma) servers over to Debian.

      it just works and I’m not afraid of some dumbass political move to block or change access to it.

      if all else fails, I’ll probably switch to opensuse.

      • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        23 days ago

        I can’t see a reason for Debian to fall especially for servers, except where you’ve got some packages built for RHEL only, though you’d have the same issue with any distro.

        I’m doing the same BTW. Except for what I have no control over, which is OL. But that’s a vendor box so its mostly their problem.

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
    41·
    22 days ago

    Kids don’t understand the issues Ubuntu had early on. Especially when you had limited resources on the system, Debian was ol’ reliable for so long.

    But yeah, I’ve regretted the past couple Debian installs I did. Its time has passed.