What /g/ thinks about this distro?

Patrician choice. Perfect for any situation.

It's ok

>>62266299
ancient shit fro fags that can't handle Arch

>>62266299
Debian Jesse was the last true Debian.
Debian Stretch is Ubuntu LTS without good font rendering and PPA's by default.

>>62266299

Used debian 15 years ago and thought it was shit. Used it a few months ago and it is still shit

>>62266299
A shitty remnant of its great former self.

Great host OS for running KVM/Xen.

>>62266336
I keep saying your second post part here constantly and no one believes me I knew some intelligent people actually bothered to use debian unstable and read wikis/packages and other shit.

>>62266314
You type like your mother couldn't quit drinking

Old school.
We should respect this venerable grandfather to todays modern Linux Mint and the more recently deprecated ubuntu.

The only one that actually fucking works and does what you want it to

>>62266314
Arch is a bloated POS

>download Debian mini.iso
>boot up with the parameter base-installer/install-recommends=false
>deselect X, print server etc. during install
install stuff as needed from there. xserver-xorg-core, dwm, st, whatever.. enjoy a truly small system (although it has systemdicks)

>>62266299
Been using it since etch.
If it wouldn't work, i would've gone to a different one.
It's as low level and convinient for every task.
Server/workstation? -> stable
Gamingm(yes, you faggots)/laptop/desktop -> testing
Pro users who like to mess with bugs and want to have bleeding edge s/w-> unstable or experimental.
You can have it in work, laptop, desktop, nas, server... Use the same config and apply the same procedures to solve your problems in all your machines.

>>62266769
gaming via steam?
anything just utterly broken testing builds?

>>62266690
>apt
No thanks.

>>62266782
Not him but yeah, Steam gaming works great. Don't really get what your second question is trying to ask. If you mean if testing is usable on daily basis, I've never had problem with it.

>>62266314
>Arch
No, thanks, it's not a professional-tier distro. I'd been using Gentoo for 1.5 years as my main OS. Now I'm using the old good Debian.

>>62266299
fucked package manager
old ass software, old ass kernel
shit security (Still using DSA 1086 keys!)
pretty much a plague

use instead:
Gentoo
Source Mage
Void
Slackware
Funtoo
LFS

>>62266299
As a Gentoo user, I find the old man Debian quite respectable.

My only gripe is that software projects (upstream) that are targeting Debian often had and still sometimes have really shitty hacky build scripting that -as-is- only works with Debian.

>>62266299
never breaks
best package manager
non autistic

>>62266299
it's the whitest slice of bread

>>62266824
What's wrong with apt?

>>62266871
>calls arch unprofessional
>has been using gentoo

>>62266314
>arch
>not gentoo

>>62266960
calm down there edgelord. sounds like you have no clue how debian works or what security means

>>62267012
> best package manager
I like Sabayon's better for binary package managers.

Automatic full or differential sync & parallel fetching, better command line syntax, better feature set, more clearly defined/defineable "sets" of packages, more useful configuration management.

Apt can do the job too, but it's less nice.

>>62266960
>old ass software : outdated kernel
You are obviously critiquing a package management system you don't know how to use.

>>62267028
> has been using gentoo
It's actually a really pretty good production distro, regardless if it isn't the distro for you.

>>62267028
Because apt is one of the most horrible package managers with the most complex syntax. For something that is supposed to be used in a terminal the output of apt is absolute shit. Even yum is better in that regard.

Try making a deb package yourself. You'll want to stab your eyes out after 2 minutes. Arch's strong point is simplicity which gave birth to the AUR. Something like that would not be possible with apt.

It just werks*.

*Not guaranteed after first update

Used to be great, now it's shit. I hate distros with an autistic fear of nonfree firmware.