Should I be using Debian?

That’s unanswerable but …

I’ve used Debian exclusively for many years. There are several aspects that have served me well:

• debian is one of the older, more popular distros - huge community and catalogue of solved problems.
• it just makes sense to run the same OS on my desktop and on servers, no oddities between them.
• it’s stable and boring.

On that last point, before switching to debian I (like everyone) enjoyed different DE’s and distros because they look great and the constant change gives a feeling of progress. However, at some point I realised that I didn’t want my OS to be a distraction from what I’m actually doing. Like I want to get my work done, and something not working quite right with the OS due to some bug or update is a huge distraction. Debian’s release cycle mitigates that problem.

In the before times it used to be annoying that the software in Debian’s repos lagged a long way behind the current releases, but that’s not really a problem with the advent of flatpak, nix, and (my preference) AppImages.

Recently I was tempted to switch to NixOS, but I didn’t.