So I gave Debian a week to see how it would be as my main distro. It was an ok experience. I couldn't get into Debian Stable because the older kernel worked like shit on my hardware. From there I tried Debian testing, which turned out meh. I hate all of the community distros based on Debian Testing, they run/look like they were made by a 15 year old. And running a clean install required more work than I wanted to invest into it. Seriously, if I wanted to setup my own distro, I would use Arch Linux or Gentoo. So I went Debian SID, to be correct, Siduction. Installing it with the web based installer was a unique experience to say the least and by that I mean, I would rather never do it again. Once installed though it was actually pretty good. All of my games/programs I wanted were right in the repos and I really only had to setup so basic shit that was missing. But where it failed was driver handling and it seriously sucked when playing with AMD. The default kernel would fail to reboot/shutdown, so I had to install Liquorix kernel to fix that. And that was kind of the theme with it. One thing would fail and I would have to do workarounds to fix it. Which kept me active, but also really sucked at the whole, "Desktop" thing. If I wanted to tinker, I would whip out my Chromebook and tinker with that. But for my main, I want a solid desktop distro, which Debian SID is not. Now I know someone is going to be like, "But Crystal, that's the nature of rolling release." To which I say, no! I have run rolling-release distros for weeks to months, without hassle. I ran Chakra for an entire year without breaking it.
Still, I jumped back to Solus Linux because it's really the only other distro to run perfectly on my laptop. Plus I just keep finding myself coming back to it. I hop to another distro, set everything up, then I am like, :/ because it just doesn't feel like home. It would be like me going to DS-Scene, sure it's another community like GBATemp, but I know from experience, that I don't belong there.
Of course I am pretty sure everyone reading this right now are thinking 3 things:
Why did you try Debian if you hate it some much? Because after 6 years, I felt like giving it another chance. Turns out not much has changed in 6 years.
Why Solus? Because works
Are you really going to stay with this time? I hope so .-. I can't keep ditching it and coming back. I am starting to feel like a dirtbag
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