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Sick. I literally just switched from Ubuntu to Debian
Just curious, what made you choose Debian over say Fedora or Arch option?
No great reason, really. I've tried Arch before and it needs a bit more manual administration than I prefer. The goal was to get off of Ubuntu and, having never used Fedora and Ubuntu being close to Debian, I just kind of went with what I'm more familiar with.
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