Just showing off my desktop. For those curious, I use the XFCE desktop, and ULauncher tied to the windows key. I’m also experimenting with animated wallpapers using hidimari.
Just showing off my desktop. For those curious, I use the XFCE desktop, and ULauncher tied to the windows key. I’m also experimenting with animated wallpapers using hidimari.
Neofetch output:
_,met$$$$$gg. REDACTED@REDACTEDsLaptop ,g$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$P. ------------ ,g$$P" """Y$$.". OS: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) x86_64 ,$$P' `$$$. Host: HP Notebook ',$$P ,ggs. `$$b: Kernel: 5.10.0-21-amd64 `d$$' ,$P"' . $$$ Uptime: 15 hours, 35 mins $$P d$' , $$P Packages: 2534 (dpkg), 24 (flatpak) $$: $$. - ,d$$' Shell: bash 5.1.4 $$; Y$b._ _,d$P' Resolution: 1366x768 Y$$. `.`"Y$$$$P"' DE: Xfce 4.16 `$$b "-.__ WM: Xfwm4 `Y$$ Terminal: xfce4-terminal `Y$$. CPU: AMD A6-7310 APU with AMD Radeon R4 Graphics `$$b. Memory: 2216MiB / 3394MiB `Y$$b. CPU Usage: 32% `"Y$b._ Disk (/): 110G / 454G (26%) `""" Battery1: 100% [Full] Local IP: 192.168.1.209 Public IP: REDACTEDdebian is my favorite distro. I used to use stable for a a very long time. Now I use sid, and I’ve never had a problem
Out of all my years of distro-hopping, I always end up back at Debian. I just need the stability, anything else is extremely frustrating. Debian sid is still very stable in comparison to anything else, but I’ve never minded using older software anyway. As such, the slight boost in stability of using stable, is usually worthwhile. Furthermore the speed of a system with so little bloat is what dragged me to Linux and opensource anyway.
I used to not care about the older software on Stable. Stable+backports was perfect for me. Now with flatpaks and appimages it’s even better. On one machine I went through 3 major release updates with debian stable with 0 problems. It’s nice having a system that basically can’t break.
I tried out Sid and for more than a year now I haven’t had any issues. It is nice having newer software tbf.
More or less the same here, though I never switched to sid for longer than a few months. Flatpak chosen specifically on software I want a new feature on has made stable without backports plenty for me. After all, why care if all the software is newer, if I’ll only use the extra stuff on three or four packages? Older software (usually) runs faster on slower machines anyway, and sense the laptop referenced with the prior neofetch is the fastest machine in my household, that is an important factor.
yeah I agree with all of that. It’s also really remarkable how stable Debian is
If you have older hardware and want to try something new check out netbsd!
Sounds great! I’ll be sure to try it on an old netbook I have.