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Having a bunch of beers rn & trying out Debian for the first time. Will I have regrets? š¤ happy Saturday to all, drink something delicious today š»
Main desktop runs Arch but everything else runs Debian. Itās the perfect āinstall and forgetā system so long as you donāt need the absolute bleeding edge packages.
What a coincidence, Iām drinking mead and installing Gentoo. Currently compiling gcc, always takes forever, maybe I shouldāve gone with the recompiled binary for that one lol.
There is almost certainly a binary version of gcc in Gentoo. I ran Gentoo for 20 odd years and also generally insisted on compiling everything. I recall gcc going from v3 to 4. My laptop ran for over a week on a glass table with a prop to keep the fan vent unobstructed.
I probably should have learned back then that I didnāt really understand exactly how the toolchain worked and how to get from ebuilds to binary code really works. Iām a sysadmin and not a programmer.
With hindsight, I suggest that you pick your fights with care. Use the bin versions of entire packages where available and enjoy the flexibility of USE when it will make a difference.
gcc is not the biggest lump you will compile but it does take a while. It was rather slower 20 years ago.
Yep, I drink mead, i.e. honey wine. Itās really good, doesnāt give me as much of a headache as beer these days. Sometimes itās too sweet, I havenāt found a good dry one around here though.
I played around with Gentoo a few years ago, got it working but then got annoyed with some binaries taking too long. Wanted to build a machine I couldnāt hack though, and now thereās a repo with precompiled bins if you ask portage nicely, so I figured Iād give it a shot again. Maybe it was the mead but I forgot to do that for gcc though. oops
If you need new drivers then Debian is not the easiest distro. I love Debian but I do occasionally consider distro-hopping again to get some complex things working (like ROCm).
I do think Debian is an excellent starting place, though. If it suits you, great! If not, youāll have a better idea of what you need to look for going forward. Hopping distros isnāt the end of the world, after all.
You having regrets depends on your expectations. If you want a very stable system with little maintenance then youāll be happy. Packages will be older but thatās what makes it easy to keep stable.
Iām not personally a fan of vanilla Debian because the stable versions are a bit too outdated for the things I like to work with. I do use Debian derivatives though the LTS versions.
If youāre using Debian as a daily driver you can always use a Flatpak if you need a newer version than whatās available in the repos. The foundation is solid, though, and thatās what matters - itās one of the things that keeps bringing me back to Debian for office workstation use.
You can also use backports for some of the more āsystem entangled softwareā that cannot be packaged in a flatpak. Or, you can skip ahead to āTrixieā unstable. It has been great for me for the last several months. Itās arguably more stable than what Ubuntu calls an LTS.
Debian has treated me kindly since I installed it a week ago. Only issue I discovered was with a wireless mouse sometimes not working on boot but thats fixed with solaar.
Still miss arch but I donāt feel like installing it again lmao
Sometimes a wireless mouse problem is just āI also plugged in a USB 3.0 device, and it puts out so much RF noise that itās jamming my mouse dongle and the local airportās approach radarā.
It may feel tasty and great todayā¦ but it (definitely) wonāt feel great as much in the future. Have some respect on yourself and drink something healthy instead ā there are better ways to have fun than that.
That aside, Debian can be very user friendly just like any other distro ā I say go for it.
Just ran out of my local brews, Troegs Field Study IPA, so going to be cracking open some Coors Banquet soon. But I donāt think you will. I use Debian 12 with AwesomeWM and love it.