Just use Debian. If you have technical skills, run Debian Testing. If not, run Debian Stable, or someone else who repackages Debian Testing such as Mint or (as you mentioned) Ubuntu LTS.
Debian Testing will sometimes break, so technical skills are necessary if you want to always be sure you can be up and running. Otherwise, something may not work for a few days to a week, like CUPS (printing). 99.9% of the time, it won't be your networking or something super-important, but it could be. When you update, read the list of changes and absolutely make sure that you know what the things are that are being uninstalled, and whether you can do without them for a few days. Check the internet for when packages are removed from testing (and why) or will be moved into testing from unstable. Don't forget that you can use LLMs now when you have a problem.
Once you've been able to handle Debian Testing for a while, especially through a couple of breakages, you'll probably be confident enough and knowledgeable enough to know if you want to go to another distro. I personally don't need anything other than testing for my desktops, and stable for my servers.
edit: Debian Testing gets software that has worked smoothly on Debian Unstable for a two-week period. Sometimes things get missed during those two weeks, and sometimes Debian decides to reorganize packages radically in a way that takes more than one update. One thing to remember is that urgent bugfixes to Debian Stable might bypass testing altogether, and might actually arrive later to testing than everywhere else. You'll probably hear about those on the news or on HN, and you might want to manually install those fixes before they actually hit testing.
> Every time the year of the Linux desktop arrives, I'm baffled, since not much has changed on this end.
It's Critic's Disease: When a band moves to a major label, they "suddenly" put out their critically acclaimed masterpiece, when before nobody would review a thing they did and mocked their fanatic fans.
"Now, they've matured."
Let them have it, though. People need to rationalize their past hostility to the right thing in some way in order to progress. If you want people to say that they were ever wrong, you'll die waiting. The situation became completely intolerable where they were insisting on staying no matter what because they weren't stuck-up nerds who care about stupid stuff that no one cares about. They were finally humiliated enough to move.
They'll end up moving to weird semi-commercial distributions that market specifically to them, too, and ridicule people who criticize those distributions for being stuck-up nerds who care about stupid stuff no one cares about. As long as it doesn't break Debian, I'm cool.
> a professional, who has taken the time to divide it up into easily digestible chunks which form a coherent narrative, with runnable intermediate stages in-between.
Tangentially related, but I think the way to get to this is to build a "learner model" that LLMs could build and update through frequent integrated testing during instruction.
One thing that books can't do is go back and forth with you, having you demonstrate understanding before moving on, or noticing when you forget something you've already learned. That's what tutors do. The best books can do is put exercises at the end of a chapter, and pitch the next chapter at someone who can complete those exercises successfully. An LLM could drop a single-question quiz in as soon as you ask a weird question that doesn't jibe with the model, and fall back into review if you blow it.
The famous Hacker News website is about computers. It is also about ad revenue and VC funding. It was originally named Startup News, and its patron and author is the multibillionaire founder of a well-known "startup accelerator" called "Y Combinator."
> Believe it or not, you can visit more than 1 website.
You may be the victim right now, and I may be the perpetrator, but over time you'll sometimes be the perpetrator (what, do you think you're perfect?) and I'll sometimes be the victim (you don't think I suffer?), and over time it all averages out.
But just because you're the victim this time, you're getting all the sympathy. Is that fair?
She died by assisted suicide, for private reasons. No need to exaggerate to make a point. There’s Twitter if you want to engage in that type of culture war.
You seem to have missed the Bill of Rights. Which is odd, because whenever we tell you during online arguments that our rights are guaranteed, you all say that absolute rights are dumb and it's actually more sophisticated and European to not have them.
Not that courts, legislators, and administrations haven't tried and succeeded in abridging them somewhat in any number of different ways for shorter or longer periods, but the text remains, and can always be referred to in the end. They have to abuse the language in order to abridge the Bill of Rights, and eventually that passes the point of absurdity.
No such challenge in Europe. Every "right" is the right to do something unless it is not allowed.
Debian Testing will sometimes break, so technical skills are necessary if you want to always be sure you can be up and running. Otherwise, something may not work for a few days to a week, like CUPS (printing). 99.9% of the time, it won't be your networking or something super-important, but it could be. When you update, read the list of changes and absolutely make sure that you know what the things are that are being uninstalled, and whether you can do without them for a few days. Check the internet for when packages are removed from testing (and why) or will be moved into testing from unstable. Don't forget that you can use LLMs now when you have a problem.
Once you've been able to handle Debian Testing for a while, especially through a couple of breakages, you'll probably be confident enough and knowledgeable enough to know if you want to go to another distro. I personally don't need anything other than testing for my desktops, and stable for my servers.
edit: Debian Testing gets software that has worked smoothly on Debian Unstable for a two-week period. Sometimes things get missed during those two weeks, and sometimes Debian decides to reorganize packages radically in a way that takes more than one update. One thing to remember is that urgent bugfixes to Debian Stable might bypass testing altogether, and might actually arrive later to testing than everywhere else. You'll probably hear about those on the news or on HN, and you might want to manually install those fixes before they actually hit testing.
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