Comments by "" (@dingokidneys) on "Debian is 30 this year. Here's why it's still worth using." video.

  1. I put Crunchbang linux, which was a Debian derivative, on the machine I'm using now in 2013 when I got it. I've been meaning to try out a different daily driver for years but even with Crunchbang dying as a distro and having to swap over to Debian mainstream (repointed repos and dist-upgrade, manually patch a few things) and then upgrading from, I think it was, Squeeze through to Bullseye (again repointing repos and dist-upgrade) this system has been pretty much rock solid. I did want a more up-to-date browser than was on offer from the standard repos, so I installed Brave which updates from it's own repo. I've broken it a few times, like when I first installed the NVidia proprietary driver and lost X11, and I've had a few hard drives die but that was not much problem given I use a mirrored RAID array for my /home partition. Root is on an SSD. I also upgraded the GPU as my old one aged out of support from Debian. I still want to try out a different daily driver - I love Pop!-OS on my laptop - but this installation is almost 'vintage' now and I'd feel bad about wiping it out for new shiny.
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