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Debian. APT sucks, the installer looks like straight out of 1999 and the packages are just wayyy too old. Also apt-autoremove deleted half of my system the 1st time I tried debian...
A minimal and stable distro, kinda expected
Debian is my hometown because back in, I guess 2014?, I had a computer that just sucked. It was like 1GB RAM, I think a single core CPU. Debian was like the only distro that actually installed. Ubuntu, Mint, etc. didn't even finish the installation
I like the installer but the bundles that get automatically installed are such bloat.
Nala runs since Debian 12, and its the greatest pm interface I know.
But Debian stays outdated.
Ive been using many distros in the past but only tried debian once. The installer failed.