20 years as a Debian maintainer

Re:20 years as a Debian maintainer by ausjke on Monday January 09, 2017 @04:47PM (#13360118)

Too many software development environments are using ubuntu out-of-the-box these days, I thus follow that to save some setup time. If I use desktop for simply surfing or office needs then yes Debian will be my preference.

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Re:20 years as a Debian maintainer by dromen on Monday January 09, 2017 @05:07PM (#13360259)

Are there specific things you had issues with? Debian Testing still feels more stable and as feature-filled as Ubuntu Xenial to me.

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Re:20 years as a Debian maintainer by shmerl on Monday January 09, 2017 @05:23PM (#13360379)

I never had such kind of problems when using Debian, but if you need to target a specific distro, you can always add a VM or chroot / container to target it. There is no need to replace the desktop OS to do it. Linux is quite good for such kind of thing.

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