Stability my friend. apt is what keep my basement PC updated since 2009, through many hardrives, CPUs, motherboards. I never did any fresh installation and I am on the latest Debian stable.
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AndyL
Check out Xubuntu. Part of future proofing is adopting a UI that never and I mean never changes. It’s beautiful.
Re: Linux phobia - most developer activity just needs terminal, browser and maybe VsCode. Xubuntu gives everything you need.
Side benefit: you can easily run the Linux desktop as virtual machine. VNC remote desktop works great (checkout the Remmina client). Boot, configure, load packages, experiment. If things go wrong, destroy the VM and restart.
Also: To debug Linux configuration, ChatGPT and similar LLMs are really good. For developers, this is the golden age of the Linux desktop.
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dimitarvp
Mine is Manjaro. Only two problems in several years. 
That is very specific to Debian though. My Manjaro almost never did that. Only once a script failed to remove an outdated package that was being superseded by another. Fixed by a quick Google and two commands.
Agreed, that’s why I want the immutable ones that are being transactionally upgraded.
My Manjaro is stable as well. I don’t make fun of anyone using any Linux – if it works for you, cool. But I’ve used Debian many times and always found it infuriating at one point. They leave you to fend for yourself on bigger upgrades. Many people don’t mind, I do.
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dimitarvp
Does it also use Snap? Canonical screwed up pretty badly with packages in it, including such with very bad ads, and the calculator being 300+ MB, and taking seconds to start, and a few others I am forgetting.
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AndyL
It has Snap and Apt, and maybe something else. I hate Snap. APT is used for most everything, ASDF version manager for programming languages, uv is also seeing a bit of use lately.
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dimitarvp
I would do the same but I no longer trust Canonical. They made questionable decisions. If Snap exists on the system then I assume they can remote-push whatever they like.
Paranoid I know, but going to Linux for me mandates full control over my machine.
But again, I am not judging anyone using anything Debian-based. I have used both Debian and Ubuntu and made the informed choice of not using them anymore.
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warmwaffles
I’ve been rocking Arch for the better part of 15 years now. I’ve only really had hardware problems.
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AstonJ
Moved these posts to a dedicated thread as I’m sure a lot of people may be thinking about doing the same…
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AstonJ
At times I feel the same. The thing that wants me to do it more than anything is that macOS is now beginning to feel like a compromised system.
I recently noticed that Help Apple Improve Search in Spotlight settings was checked but I did not opt in for this (and I’m pretty sure there will be some sort of legal action against Apple at some point for enrolling people into this automatically). It could mean that every single file name (and maybe even some of its data) has been sent to Apple.
There was also all that fuss about Apple by-passing network security so apps like LittleSnitch could not detect their activity:
Unfortunately, Apple (without telling anybody) decided to “exclude” or exempt over 50 of its own applications (such as the App Store) and daemons from being routed thru the Network Extension Framework.
Source: https://www.patreon.com/posts/46179028
And there are various other things too, like why isn’t Advanced Data Protection on by default (so that your iCloud data is encrypted - by default!) and speaking of iCloud, why can’t we just run our own servers to act as our own cloud? These could simply be at home (home broadband is fast enough now) or hosted online somewhere. This could be set for personal or family use and even multiple servers could be used for contingency. There’s absolutely no reason why anyone’s personal data ever needs to be on Apple’s servers.
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