Oh, Debian a debian the debian debian Debian Debianing over debian debian to very Debian debian. Only Debian is debian to debian enough for debian. Debian is debian though. Debian...
I can upvote this one in spirit. I started with a distro based on Slackware around 1998. I tried different ones like Mandrake, but went back to Slackware for a while. Then I tried Debian 2.2 in the early 2000 and stayed with it ever since.
I do have other distros installed on other computers, but I usually prefer those based on Debian.
Apt blew my mind. It was becoming increasingly difficult to install and maintain a lot of software on Slackware, just for my personal computer. So when a friend showed me Debian and apt, everything was suddenly much much easier.
My only issue with it is the conflicting answers you get with apt vs apt-get vs whatever the 3rd option is, and the 6 different valid commands for upgrading your system, that also have conflicting answers on which is 'correct'.
That, and yay -Sy is way more fun to type, and shorter.
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schmorpel@slrpnk.net · 28 pts · 33d
Typical Debian user:
username_1@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 33d
Oh, Debian a debian the debian debian Debian Debianing over debian debian to very Debian debian. Only Debian is debian to debian enough for debian. Debian is debian though. Debian...
pedz@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 33d
I can upvote this one in spirit. I started with a distro based on Slackware around 1998. I tried different ones like Mandrake, but went back to Slackware for a while. Then I tried Debian 2.2 in the early 2000 and stayed with it ever since.
I do have other distros installed on other computers, but I usually prefer those based on Debian.
motruck@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 33d
I presume anyone old enough to start with slackware without auto dependency management and then use apt had a similar experience. I did :)
pedz@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 33d
Apt blew my mind. It was becoming increasingly difficult to install and maintain a lot of software on Slackware, just for my personal computer. So when a friend showed me Debian and apt, everything was suddenly much much easier.
DarkSirrush@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 33d
Honestly, fair.
My only issue with it is the conflicting answers you get with apt vs apt-get vs whatever the 3rd option is, and the 6 different valid commands for upgrading your system, that also have conflicting answers on which is 'correct'.
That, and
yay -Syis way more fun to type, and shorter.ProbablyUnwise@anarchist.nexus · 6 pts · 33d
if we're talking about fun commands, my aliases for adding/removing packages are gimme/yeet.
X@piefed.world · 2 pts · 32d
‘Tis better to yeet than be yoted.
bitchkat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 32d
I installed Fedora Core 1 back when it was released around 2000. I'm currently running Fedora 44.