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Anyone switched to Debian? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Debian has less complexityand is very stable. It has a nice wiki and a Debian system can run for a few years on unattended upgrades.

Edit: this post was originally about cost savings but that is not really a useful metric

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

from which OS? Ubuntu? Rocky/RHEL? Windows Server?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Mostly Ubuntu. Comes with a ton of extras installed which add storage and ram usage along with additional complexity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ubuntu server has a minimal server installation option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah the more I think about the sillier this post is.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Compared to Arch Linux then yeah you'll save a ton of money almost guaranteed. But something like Windows? Good luck trying to calculate that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't even deploy Arch in production as its not designed to be stable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I mean you'd have to be pretty insane to use Arch on an actual server.

That or a masochist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I don't really subscribe to Arch or Debian being better or worse than each other. I encounter issues just as frequently on both. Maybe it's a little harder to do things in Debian because the repositories don't update as often but the AUR is where a lot of important stuff is and that's a pain to deal with too.

Either way it's better than using Windows.