Why I Switched from Arch to Debian

So I switched to Debian. I do still love Arch, but I had some reasons to do it, and I have some reasons to keep it. I'm still on the fence, but, we'll see what happens. Hope you enjoy this long-awaited update on what's going on! This is why I switched from Arch to Debian.

Update: I've been using Debian for a long time now. So for me right now, Debian is better. Arch is great, but for my production machine, I need the stability that Debian provides.

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[aaronryder]

Did you know, that Debian is considered the most stable Linux distro. It's so stable that ISS switched from windows xp to Debian on all the computers onboard the ISS. (:

[MaxOstap]

This is why I never bothered with Arch. I want to solve problems in software I write, not resolve conflicts in some other software that should just work.

[aris]

Good to hear that you made it back home safe and sound with all that is going on and the new vid is a plus. :D

[rGunti]

When I‘m in the Linux world, I always run something from the Debian family, be it Grandfather Debian, Mama Ubuntu, Hip kid Pop_OS! or Cousin Raspbian/Raspberry OS. And I can always be sure that I know where to go, what to do and that updates work well.

[winterbalm]

I also switched from Arch to Debian, years ago
but I sometimes fondly remember Arch as an old lover

[jays]

A little PSA: The Debian live iso with GNOME currently has the Calamares installer configured improperly, leading to installation failures due to something about the "displaymanager" module. This should be fixed in Debian 10.6, which should become available by this weekend. Other live iso flavors install properly.

[lubomirdinchev]

Debian, I tested it out 8 years ago and stayed with it, not much reason to change once you're somewhere nice. The 'cool linuxing' part is now when installing the latest stuff, but that's more exciting than package dependency fixes. Happy you're back, really good videos.

[Tenroh]

I was in a love hate relationship with Arch for years. When I first got into Linux 10 years ago I switched from Ubuntu to Arch after a few months. While it was a pain to set everything up it felt awesome when everything finally worked in the end. But after 3 months my system broke which eventually brought me back to using Windows. I was switching back and forth from various distros back to Arch only to return to Windows when something broke again. Over a year ago I tried Fedora for the first time and fell in love. It's like you said - just turn on your computer and get work done. No need to worry about stuff breaking or troubleshooting things for hours and hours. I'm still using Fedora on my main machine and never looked back. No more distro hopping and finally no more switching back to Windows. Btw I discovered your channel yesterday and I must say that I really enjoy your content!

[xxISHOWTiiMExx]

Welcome back! I’m excited to see more consistent content from your channel

[sendgl]

Good explanation as to reason for switching, we do take good connections for granted in some areas and I never really thought about the update issue with rolling releases.

[JosephDickson]

I run Debian on my "backup storage machine" in part for the reasons you mention. It's stable and I can log onto it a few times a year to run updates without the worry of a glitch. Debian is simply stable and reliable.

[rmcellig]

Excellent video!! I love using Debian! I use MX19 on one machine and debian LXQT on the other. Fast, reliable and efficient!😀

[karl-peterbaum]

Sad to see you you have not been producing the past 2 years or so, I like your presentation style and material selection. I appreciate your life situation may have changed. Hopefully you are still in good health!
I went from Ubuntu, that I had been using about 7 years to Manjaro about 4 years ago. I never really felt comfortable with Manjaro for many of the reasons you indicated in this presentation. I was working away from home often for 2 - 3 weeks at a time and upon return there would be 1 - 2 GB updates waiting for me on Manjaro. Once or twice it needed more work than a simple update to get working. Ultimately I suppose I was use to and comfortable with the Ubuntu/Debian environment. I made the switch to Debian desktop about 1 years ago, perhaps with this video in the back of my mind. My main desk machine to is setup with Debian testing, which gives me more up to date software than stable. I have never had a problem yet with Debian testing to date, although the updates are bigger than I like, I suppose that's the compromise.
I run a VM with Debian stable primarily to run Docker instances. On my Linux router (NFTables, bare metal), main and backup servers I run Debian stable. Again I use QEMU/KVM VM to run VMs with Docker. The benefit of Docker in a VM is that it does not muck up my firewall rule on bare metal, just the VM. I want to move and update my ISC DNS/DHCP from bare metal to Docker instances on the router, but have not got around to it yet. I have been very happy with XFCE for GUI on all my machines, most only available headless via VNC. I

[mzs]

Thank you! You experience just justifies the reasoning that I had. I have never tried Arch but did think of couple of times, I work in IT and I have infra issues to resolve, so cannot spend lot of time with issues on the work device(which runs Debian due to Zoom, google meet VoIP, otherwise FreeBSD :).
If you like recent releases of software, try FreeBSD, the stability and package collection like Debian and fresh like Fedora! I use FreeBSD on my personal Desktop which has dual boot of Debian just for the sake of VoIP apps.

[lynchmick]

Didn't know you were Canadian! I watched a lot of your videos when I jumped over to Manjaro a couple of years ago.

[DieKloeteCH]

Thanks to your neofetch I finally decided to install debian on my desktop, I had only used it on my servers (with absolute great success, but no GUI). Thanks so much, I will never use another distro again.

[sjcap]

Great video Dorian, i moved from Linux Lite to Sparky Linux stable and I love it.

[dfs-comedy]

I use Debian (or Debian derivatives like Raspberry Pi OS) on all my machines. Having a uniform set of administrative tools across all installations makes sense, and Debian is utterly reliable.

[WizardNumberNext]

Honestly I use Debian on all my work machines (I have 6 of them now, 1 desktop-server, 1 desktop, 2 test beds, 1 laptop and Dell PowerEdge R715)
I run CentOS 8 Stream as bare metal on server and Debian on VM.
I cannot even imagine running arch on anything serious. I am part this stage.
My OS must work no matter what. Stability is my first order of business (I run ECC RAM in all Desktops and Registered ECC in server). I even would sacrifice a lot of speed for stability.

[livingthedream]

thank you for this video, as a linux noob this sort of perspective is invaluable for someone deciding where to tip their toes, for my older hardware setups it will be debian stable all day.
Still trying to figure out what's appropriate for my modern systems.. leaning towards OpenSUSE more than anything.