Slackware and Debian both started in 1993.

That’s not exactly true. You can pay through an existing credit card via Pix (it doesn’t have to be Visa or MasterCard), or pay in instalments via pre-approved credit with the bank.

The Debian installer rescue mode can make it a lot easier by dropping you on a terminal chrooted to your root filesystem with all other mounts already in place.

It will be CLI only but anyone who’s comfortable with a shell should have a much better time there than on a live distro.

That’s ok but it’s a bit cheeky to compare something meant primarily to be used as a stable system against a rolling release.

I have been using Plasma 6 on Wayland on Debian for way longer than 2 years with no issues.

I can run Ollama. I haven’t tried to do much more than that.

I run a Debian host and honestly can’t recall if I ran it directly or on Docker, but it worked and had pretty good performance on a 7900 XTX.

It will be so fast, you’ll see the results of your commands before you issue them.

Of course it is. I’m not disputing the fact that different people have different preferences and needs. I’m disputing the idea that a restaurant should never have a phone line unless it’s used to take reservations.

Yeah possibly. The article doesn’t specify it but I’ve seen systems that would give you the automated message but still put you through if you stayed on the line.

I, on the other hand, prefer to do it online and wouldn’t mind this. Horses for courses.

Why even have a phone number if it is useless?

Really? Are reservations the only use for a phone?

I don’t know which small phones have been released recently but I’ve used an iPhone Mini and decided against it. Not because it’s small but rather because it’s not small enough.

See, I do like a big screen more than a small one. That said, the phone is something I carry in my pocket so there’s a balancing act to be done there. What was really great about the original iPhone’s size was not that it had a small screen. It’s that it was small enough that I could reach all corners of the screen with my thumb.

None of the recent small phones I tried had that advantage. In that case, since there’s no clear usability advantage to the smaller model, I’ll take the larger screen instead.

Bath water … baby ?

I mean, the logical step is to go to Debian sid, which, despite its alternative name unstable, is really not. I’ve been running a gaming rig on it for over a year with nothing more than vey vey minor hiccups, mostly because I’m impatient and run apt full-upgrade frequently.

The problem is that some of the block lists are just too eager on the blocking.

I don’t see how the author can claim that NextDNS or AdGuard are any better in that regard though, as they rely on the same lists. 🤦

HDR shines the most on OLED. Pun not intended. 😅

“Alleged?” What game are you playing here, Guardian?

This must be the most well documented attempted coup in the history of world politics. Not just a coup, but also (ongoing) plans to assassinate the President elect, the Vice-President elect and a Supreme Court justice.

Mobile app, web app, firmware, bootloader…

On servers, I agree. OP just wants a recent version of GIMP though. Production can mean many things, and dogmas are never the answer.

You can always use APT Pinning to grab GIMP and its dependencies from testing without touching the rest of the system.

Or you can just run testing or sid as your base system. My gaming rig is based on testing but pulling Mesa and video derivers from experimental and sid and I haven’t had any issues with it. Been running it for about 2 years now this way.

https://wiki.debian.org/AptConfiguration

Unfortunately no support for Ecovacs.

AW2 is DRM-free. I imagine it can be run completely independent of Epic. You’d need the store to purchase and download it but you could probably even uninstall the Epic app afterwards. I haven’t tested this though, so please don’t just take my word for it.