We are going to welcome you back into the tend when these three year old x.y.456 to x.y.457 updates arenāt cutting it anymore. Until then: Have fun storming the castle. We will keep the pool warm.
I found it a bit too āopinionatedā for me With requirements like whole disk (due to encryption), it just wasnāt a direction I wanted to go (for long).
You can still run āapt updateā every 15 minutes on Debian, you just wonāt have any updates if you do it that often. But whatās wrong with doing that on Arch?
I recently switched my vpses from CentOS to Debian since I wanted them running on a true community distribution and not have to worry about decisions that Redhat/IBM might make in the future that could effect CentOS/RHEL or RHEL clones.
A bunch of years ago there was a book describing categories of technological adopters. Itās a decent way of thinking about almost anything in the tech space. Quick chart of core concepts:
Iām definitely an Early Adopter on the Early Majority side of the chasm. Itās why Iām content to keep running EndeavourOS; itās got the tangy taste of Arch with comfort-food familiarity. Itās also why havenāt explored NixOS or Omarchy. One has too much fiddly stuff, the other is too new.
I donāt mind some futzing about with configs and it gives my brain a decent workout. Gotta do that as one ages, donāt you know. But doing it all day for everything on my system? Aināt got no time for that. I want to play No Manās Sky, dammit.