Thanos Katsiolis <kls.tha...@gmail.com> writes: > The reasons I chose them is that Debian is considered a stable and reliable > OS (the policy of the OS is not to > include as many and as much quickly as possible new features), and that it > has a large and dependable community.
Isn't that enough? I guess I'd say the policy of Debian is that it works. Personally, I had used Linux off and on in the 1990s but there were issues. I was otherwise a Unix user in school and work, mostly Sun's Solaris but also Digital and HP and some others I don't remember any more. A friend and colleague recommended Debian around late '90s and I installed Debian, 2.0 Hamm I think. It just worked, as in I ran the same installation on my ever morphing desktop computer for almost a decade until I made the switch to 64-bit. I guess that "new" 64-bit installation is now over a decade old then. Updates work and it does't barf when I change hardware. For sure I have other computers these days and my desktop alone has Windows 10 and Arch Linux in addition to Debian. But mostly I use the desktop and the Debian on it.
