I’ve been using Ubuntu as my daily driver for a good few years now. Unfortunately I don’t like the direction they seem to be heading.

I’ve also just ordered a new computer, so it seems like the best time to change over. While I’m sure it will start a heated debate, what variant would people recommend?

I’m not after a bleeding edge, do it all yourself OS it will be my daily driver, so don’t want to have to get elbow deep in configs every 5 minutes. My default would be to go back to Debian. However, I know the steam deck is arch based. With steam developing proton so hard, is it worth the additional learning curve to change to arch, or something else?

  • RustmilianEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    “Stable Backports” what a joke, Backports can and have destabilized user systems.
    Let me just take the thing that’s not ready, configure it a bit differently and by some magic it’s “stable”, make it make sense.
    At that point you have a semi-stable system, so… Ubuntu, PopOS, LMDE.
    Even the Debian devs tell you to use the Backports with care.
    Ignore reality, I don’t care. Go do it on someone else’s time.

    • onoEnglish
      -2•1 year ago

      Changing the subject away from Debian’s gaming performance is a strange tactic, but since you’ve shifted to mocking the name of the distribution, Debian Stable’s name comes from this sense of the word:

      stable 3 of 3 adjective
      1b : not changing or fluctuating : unvarying

      I would expect someone so familiar with “all 3 and beyond” of the Debian distros to know that.

      To indulge your sophistry, though, practically all operating systems have released broken packages at some point. Debian Stable has a well-earned reputation for doing it less than others. Even with kernel Backports. Trying to scare people away from it is a disservice to the community.