After years of distro hopping, I had one to many updates which borked some driver & realized what I’m really looking for is my laptop should be boring stable appliance. Incredibly happy with it so far.

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      And if I want to use my OS to feel cool? If I want to run programs whose new features I mostly don’t per se need but which give me an artificial sense of agency and make me feel less empty? If seeing a wall of updates whose contents I’ll rarely bother to inspect gives the little autism gremlin living in my brain an erection? What then, Debian fanboys?

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      What else can you even do with a computer besides managing files and running programs?

      That said (with tongue in cheek), I went from Ubuntu to Mint and can’t see myself starting all over again. I’m not savvy, I don’t terminal or at least I never have. I’m just a musician that also plays awkwardly with Blender. An absolute computer casual. But Debian does sound lovely.

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        What else can you even do with a computer besides managing files and running programs?

        Arch users: Update OS!
        Gentoo users: Compile OS!
        *BSD users: Trying to make the OS work!
        Windows: reboot and reinstall!
        Android: Watch advertisements!
        DOS: hm… Well. Yes.

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          Which advertisements? (Genuinely curious, using Graphene OS and won’t switch back, when I still used normal Android there weren’t any ads yet)

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              Interesting, apart from YouTube I have never used extra software that shows ads. Luckily projects like NewPipe exist for that, so the only place where I currently can’t avoid all ads is in the browser on my tablet (its an iPad so the browser sadly doesnt support ad blockers).