I really enjoy Debian. I have no need for bleeding edge software releases, what I need is stability. I even run Firefox ESR 😀 It’s quite hard to brick a Debian stable installation (if not doing any extraordinary that is).

I find the web 1.0 experience rather nice.

I know that they don’t spell it with big letters on the website, but Debian is NOT a distro for new users. So why even go there?

Debian + I3 when working and Debian + KDE when slacking off. 🙃

[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/](uBlock Origin)

Granted, it’s a kind of niche use case but in the embedded world there’s usually size constraints which prevents a full blown bash installation.

However, things are better now than 20 years ago. Flash is cheap.

Solar system. My gaming machine is called Titan, my Pihole is called Asteriods, my Lemmy machine Callisto and on it goes. 😀

If we are talking about desktops and servers then yes and yes.

However SystemD in an embedded system with tight process serialization needs, it’s hell on earth.