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Take away nostalgia and there's little reason to pick Debian over other distros
Non of cannonical's bullshit, more barebones then mint, the only distro i know of where you can almost seemlessly move from stable release to rolling release and back without re-installing, very big software support due to proximity to ubuntu, big repositories, stable is stable AF, you know it will keep being supported for many more years, much more flexible then the DE based distroa like ElementryOS and DeepinOS.
I dont use debian nowadays but its frickin great.
What? Its super stable, super easy to install, and makes it easy to run purely free software, and contributing to it contributes to all downstream distros
You can sorta say that about most popular distros though
Only sort of and not fully though.
A quick run through of some popular distros and reasons you might pick Debian instead of them
What about openSUSE???
openSUSE Tumbleweed is basically Arch with a Control Panel and an enterprise backing.
And automatic QA testing insuring a higher level of stability compared to arch. Good defaults with byrfs and snapper out of the box too.
What are your thoughts on PopOS?
I'm just now migrating to Debian after years and years mostly using Mint. I like apt and I want to get away from Ubuntu based distros. Why not go to the source? It's definitely a little rough around the edges compared to Mint, and I may well end up using LMDE once they update to Bookworm.
I'm on LMDE right now. Its pretty great. My only complaint is with Cinnamon being 2 minor versions behind I don't get meaningful touch gestures
That's cool. I think I'm going to do it. I'm so comfortable in Mint having used it forever. It's a bit of a chore configuring Debian to where I want it. I don't use a touchscreen, so that Cinnamon issue you have wouldn't bother me.