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Reader supplied reviews for Debian Average rating 9.0 from 477 review(s) Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on Debian? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- unstabletesting1312111098.07.06.05.04.03.13.02.22.12.01.31.21.1 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 13 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-11-08 Votes: 7 Debian is great. After years of using OpenSUSE, it's become terrible. With the removal of YaST, which was a distinguishing feature of the distro, and the addition of Agama and Myrlyn, it's not good. Not to mention that the codec repository doesn't work properly. There are many bugs that shouldn't be there with the release of version 16. Now, after trying Debian 13, I was surprised by its fluidity and how everything works simply and smoothly. No bugs and everything really works. I'm analyzing this distro and I'm finding it very good. It's meeting my needs very efficiently. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 13 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-11-04 Votes: 32 Debian 13 - A Return to Stability and Simplicity After many years using Ubuntu as my main distribution both at home and at work (since version 10.04), I decided to give Debian another try, and I’m really glad I did. I’ve always appreciated Ubuntu for its ease of use: the simple installation process, the convenience of having all applications in one place, the system’s speed, and the great attention to visual design and polish. Everything always looked very nice and cohesive. However, in Ubuntu 24.04 (the last version I used), I started noticing that I was spending more and more time removing things that bothered me, such as the forced use of Snap packages, having to manually install Flatpak, the built-in telemetry, the poor integration between the system and Flatpaks, the heavily customized GNOME experience, and the noticeable performance degradation caused by Canonical’s modifications. Another issue is Canonical’s slow and limited desktop support. It feels like the desktop team is too small and overwhelmed, so many issues remain unresolved for a long time. That’s when I decided to look for a more reliable, less customized distribution, something cleaner and with fewer preinstalled extras. Debian and Fedora immediately came to mind, as both are solid and well-established. But I wanted a system I wouldn’t have to reinstall every six months. So I went with Debian 13. I installed it using the Calamares installer from the Debian GNOME Live image. The installer is not as polished or beginner-friendly as Ubuntu’s, but it worked fine and got the job done. After a few small tweaks to GNOME, I realized this was the best decision I’ve made in years. I’ve been running Debian 13 with GNOME for three months now, and everything feels smoother and more consistent. Probably because Debian doesn’t carry all those extra layers of customization that Canonical adds. I can easily see myself staying with Debian for many years without issues. In the past, Debian had a reputation for being difficult to install and configure, but that’s no longer true. Today it’s simple, stable, and efficient: a true “install and forget” system. Rating: 10/10. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 13 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-10-31 Votes: 32 I am using Debian since 2002 (Woody). I am self-hosting my thirteen websites with it. I am happy not to pay my operating system. But, the software webalizer is no more present on this distro like it was before (Debian 12, Debian 11, etc.). This system is particularly very stable compared to Windows and more powerful than Windows. MS-DOS was based on CPM. Linux is based on Unix. The Kernel come from the Minix opertaing system a mini unix whom source code was in the book of Andrew Tanenbaum: "Operating systems" in the beginning of the nineties. I have tested many other distro before RHEL, Slackware, BackTrack, Mendriva (ex Mandrake), Suse, etc. My favorite Distro is this one for a server. Even if we can use it for a desktop to develop in numerous programming languages. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 477 reader reviews of Debian...