Post #3578413
2026-07-04 11:19 UTC
@slothrop@chaos.social @peter_mcmahan@mas.to Yeah I left Ubuntu for Debian circa 2010 and haven't looked back. I run it on my work laptop, the family laptop, and all of my workstations and servers.
I haven't used ZFS but it runs Ceph just fine.
If you are using it on a *recent* laptop you may need to update to the backport kernel since the shipping one might not have all of the drivers needed for things like sleep to work well, but that's not a big deal.
The mainline packages are not the most recent but realistically 95% of software doesn't need to be bleeding edge anyway and you can install backports or build from source for the 1-2 packages you might want something really new for.
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@rcr@mastodon.online 2026-07-04 14:01
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange @slothrop@chaos.social @peter_mcmahan@mas.to I was using various flavours of ubuntu and mint when I made the switch to Linux many years ago. I still use mint for friends and (wider) family, but at home we use Debian stable, and have so for years. Even made the switch from XFCE to gnome some time ago, and it works just fine for us. Debian stable has come a long way. Network printing, media codex, WiFi card, usually just works.