They’re in their 60’s, finally convinced them.

They say things like “This is the same…”

and I’m like

“Ya because that’s Firefox, the only program you use…”

“What was Windows even doing for us?”

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    I don’t have a “top 5”, but the main thing was outdated software. I went to Debian because I wanted “stability” and heard that it was good, but it ended up meaning the “15-minute bugs” I encountered weren’t fixed for basically the whole year I used it, all the apps looked like they were made in 2007, and if it weren’t for Linux forums I would never have known that there were more “modern” Linux apps, and I would have been left believing Linux development basically died

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      I feel like outdated software on the stable distro like Debian has become less of a problem with the development of flatpak.

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          I like the simplicity and that everything is up to date. Not sure about the weekly 11 GB of updates though.

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          Don’t say that too loud around here, people get really upset at flatpak/snap

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      Yeah this tracks, I don’t understand why people recommend Debian so much, especially to new users. Distros that update more regularly like Mint or Fedora (for non nvidia users) are much better options.

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        This was my mistake, but I don’t think people recommended Debian as a desktop OS - I believe it was recommended as a server