For debian and ubuntu, which one should I choose as my personal development system? Thanks.
On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 7:02 PM Anssi Saari <a...@sci.fi> wrote: > 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. > >
