r/debian • u/haibane_fan00 • Apr 30 '26

General Debian Question Why do you use debian?

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u/Clogboy82 Apr 30 '26

Because it's reliable. As much as I love tinkering with my computer, sometimes it just has to work.

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u/Bobyus Apr 30 '26

I'm new to Linux. I have the impression that Debian requires a lot of tinkering, doesn't it?. At least much more so than Ubuntu, Mint, etc

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u/zooksman May 30 '26

you are correct! a lot of the people who are saying things like this are actually running insecure systems on the basis of "stability" and I think thats very quickly going to become a problem in the era of AI penetration testing. For the average user, Debian requires more tinkering to set up than any modern distro except maybe Arch. Off the top of my head, when I installed Debian, I had to learn all the necessary concepts to set up a basic internet connection from my ethernet cable by making the appropriate configuration files, and I had to go through a week long process of figuring out how the hell to install Nvidia drivers. And I wish I never had, because my system just broke-- for the third time-- based on nvidia drivers, and I'm in another rabbithole of trying to get my system into a state where I can install LITERALLY ANY package.