Re: Re: Great!
  By: Aaron Thomas to bebyx on Sun Jan 03 2021 12:35 am

 >  be> I use Debian and Gentoo. Looking forward to meaningful discussion.
 > 
 > I've heard that Debian is more "stable" than Ubuntu, but what is meant by
 > that? I haven't had any issues with Ubuntu crashing, and I've used what feel
 > like a ton of software with it.
 > 
 > I'm interested in Debian because I'm assuming it's lighter and faster than
 > Ubuntu, but I'm reluctant because I'm concerned about compatibility when I
 > move files from an Ubuntu machine to a Debian one. Should that be a concern?

Back in 2008 Ubuntu's quality control was not great. You could expect lots of
packages in the repository to have bugs, and things not to work well once you
stepped out of the default settings. Things have greatly improved since.

Debian is stable in the sense that you can expect no API breakage within a
release... if Debian 23 ships with a package called mySoftware, you know that
such package has been in the testing repository for a number of years before
making it to stable. Also, if mySoftware needs a security fix or a critical
patch, such fix will be backported in a way that does not break your operating
system configuration - as opposed to other distributions, in which software may
be updated in ways that need you to manually reconfigure things.

Migrating from Debian to Ubuntu and the other way around sounds hassle-free to
me. That said, if you are hapyp with your current setup, I would not change
it... if you want to experiment with different distributions, get a spare
computer or set a virtual machie instead.
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