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submitted 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) by midtsveen@lemmy.wtf to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I have used Debian for the past 3 years, who else uses Debian?

Also, what makes you use Debian?

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[–] Czele@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Are You on stable or testing repo? Do You use flatpaks?

[–] midtsveen@lemmy.wtf 9 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I'm running Debian on multiple computers and laptops. This screenshot is of my desktop running Debian Trixie and yes I use flatpaks!

[–] Czele@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I see. Im asking because software in debian is old and so I wonder if this bothers desktop debian users or maybe they like it this way. If I were a debian user I would probably stay on testing to get some packages faster. Thanks for a reply!

[–] midtsveen@lemmy.wtf 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I always use Debian unstable, but my desktop has an Nvidia GPU and I want some stability for Warframe, the only game I play.

So I just installed the latest update by changing my /etc/apt/sources.list.d from Bookworm to Trixie.