Some mix of wrong and right, the exact proportions of which I’ll leave as an exercise to the reader.

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As an inexperienced user, I can tell you that Debian is way harder to use than most people think. Out of the box, the distro is pretty bare ones. I’m having a blast using an Arch based distro, but on Debian I had to do everything manually. Stable is freaking old and unstable has lots of limitations, Docker for example is a true pain.

Ubuntu, Mint, Zorin, POP OS, are way better than Debian for users like me.

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Stable is freaking old

Red hat users would feel right at home, right?

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Reading this, I wonder if we talk about the same Debian 😆

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“I hate configuring Linux distros which is why I use arch btw”

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Arch based, not the same thing. Crystal Linux bundles everything out of the box, so noobs like me don’t have to do anything.

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undefined> I’m having a blast using an Arch based distro, but on Debian I had to do everything manually

how???

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Stable is freaking old and unstable.

I ll give you old but not at all unstable, wonder what instability have you found in LTS.

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A lot of people (incorrectly) equate “stable” with “bug-free”. So conversely, having bugs would be “unstable”.

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Pretty sure the whole statement is

Stable is freaking old, and unstable has lots of limitations

I don’t think they’re saying Debian LTS is unstable.

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Exactly what my bad wording meant to say. Thank you for your extraordinary reading comprehension.

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I think he meant: Stable is freaking old. Unstable has a lot of limitations.

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Really? It works for me in my homelab

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RHEL costs $600 a year. Its users can cope with debian easily.

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