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People who use Debian for desktop, why? (lemmy.world)

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Why use a server-oriented distro for desktop? If the goal is stability, wouldn't something like Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Zorin, etc. be a better option for desktop?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Stable/unchanging (zero maintenance for several years, no new bugs appearing out of nowhere), as minimal or bloated as you want it to be (made my own custom live/installer ISO which means I can start fresh with my environment already set up in a matter of minutes), huge number of pre-packaged software, good documentation, identical base distribution across my servers and desktops, mostly sane defaults, community-backed (no or few corporate interests driving the project to shit... look what it did to Ubuntu/CentOS...).

Other Debian-based distributions don't bring anything of value to the table for me, I'd rather use OG Debian.