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0 pointsLAC-Tech3y ago0 comments

intuitive CLI, things are packaged a bit better, easy configuration.

I swore off of apt based distros after I accidentally installed some graphical things on my WSL and multiple debian wizards couldn't figure out how to remove them, even when I installed stuff like dpigs and aptitude.

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jack_pp3y ago

I've been running debian for 8 or 9 years now, on hardware not WSL2 and have no issues with apt. I use debian on my own machine because we use debian on all our cloud VMs and I don't want to learn more than one distro so idk if your WSL2 problems are a great reason to swear debian off

onefuncman3y ago

My golden rule of sys admin is if you can't fix it, you reformat and replace it.

If you reproduce the error, congrats, now you get to figure out where to file the bug report with reproduction steps.

herewulf3y ago

My golden rule of sys admin is that anything on a Linux based OS can be fixed. Preferably without a reboot.

Though a friend of mine once discovered that it's a bad idea to force remove glibc (on a non BusyBox distro, of course).

5e92cb50239222b3y ago

God, yes. If all you know is reboot & reinstall (bad habits probably brought from the windows world where you generally can't do anything else), you'll never get past the basics.

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Gordonjcp3y ago

> My golden rule of sys admin is that anything on a Linux based OS can be fixed. Preferably without a reboot.

Is it worth your time, though?

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