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Just a few days ago I wrestled with the overzealous sandboxing and security of the Chromium snap. Had to get a Flatpak and even then had to use some flags to get the proper permissions enabled. Next time I do a refresh I'm going with Debian.
Give Linux Mint Debian Edition a look!
With all respect I'd like to ask, why most people in comments avoiding Debian like plague? It's good OG distro, stable as fuck, i know about old packages and all, but after daily driving arch BTW™ for 5 years straight all i can say is, I'm tired boss, I'm tired of nonstop updating, I'm tired of dependency hell that coming if you didn't updated your system for half a month, I'm tired of resolving repeating dependency hell when you'll have to reinstall half of your system to get it work another week, I'm tired of modern filesystems that locking themselves up completely when something goes wrong, so I'm just decided to give Debian a chance, and you wouldn't believe it, it's heaven, when you can just power up your system and it just works, without any trouble, yes, i have dated software, but it's worth it, and yes, 8 years ago, my first distro was Linux mint, and it broke when i used OFFICIAL GUI updater tool to update version of my mint, also I've upvoted your comment and don't mean any bad
Probably different experiences for some people. I don't currently use my computer for anything time sensitive. I'm studying web development and some minor programming on it and play video games by myself generally. I like to tinker and mess with stuff as well, so Arch and KDE for me is fine. I like getting new features quickly and I don't need or have a huge desire for the most stable system. If it breaks i just research how i can fix it and I've learned a lot doing that. When I do start actually working in development I'll probably use a more stable release with Gnome. So really just comes down to different strokes for different folks.
Are you me from 8 years ago?) Keep it up) it'll help you to gain knowledge and as you've said someday you'll want your pc to just work) 8 years ago I've started to use Linux and did alot of distro hopping, and 5 years ago i installed arch, and now i trying Debian)
Agreed to infinity and beyond. I'm already burnt out after a couple years too. Debian all the way
I used Debian for a bit many years ago. It was great for all the reasons you are tired of Arch (I had tried Gentoo before Debian). When Ubuntu came out, I was quite happy with it. It had the stability of Debian, but was a bit more polished and had better support for new stuff without sacrificing stability.
I'm moving on from Ubuntu at this point, and have tried Mint, but not Mint Debian. It's nice enough. I'm curious what Debian is like these days though. I haven't used it in a decade at least.
Debian became more polished and user friendly, you can check YouTube reviews of Debian 12, and yes) i think you should try mint Debian first because of mint flavours i only tried standard mint and don't know how mint Debian edition do