Debain squeeze as a desktop

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Hi,

does anyone here use Debian as there main desktop of choice...as opposed to *untu...?

Looking at moving away from SuSE, used it from version 7.3 upto somewhere is in the 9's. thought i'd give 11.4 a go and finding it a bit clunky.

TIA
 
testing was the other thought...probably more stable than ubuntu 11.04 :) does much break on it when upgrading?
 
I use Debian Squeeze as my main desktop. It's where I landed after a bout of distro-hopping. After five or six years of using Linux I have finally arrived at a point where stability is more important to me than having bleeding-edge software.

Squeeze has been absolutely rock-solid for me in the month or so that I've had it installed. I'm notified whenever there are any updates and a swift "apt-get upgrade" grabs them all for me. I've installed a few applications and the APT system has taken care of everything for me. Oh, and I'm using KDE which is running just fine and is a superb desktop.

I couldn't be happier really. I wish I'd jumped to Debian ages ago, and I'm certainly not planning on doing any more distro-hopping.
 
Not exactly my main Desktop, but if it wasn't for me playing games it certainly would be.

I have a headless Debian squeeze setup. I use it for downloads / torrents / network shares (samba) / IRC and coding.

It's now had a uptime of 60 days, it's almost as snappy and responsive as my main setup, which is pretty good considering it's running on 7/8 year old hardware, It's not skipped a beat since install.

Excellent distro.
 
thanks for the updates guys.

I came across crunchbang Linux the other day which is now based on debian with there own apt repo for update drivers and kernel and there own stuff.

Have tried it out in virtualbox and seems a very good distro and appears to be extremely configurable. that conky thing is rather good :) openbox is no gnome but that may not be such a good thing ;)

Think i'll load it on a spare laptop and see how I get on and then if all is well reload my main laptop.
 
I use debian sid. Also had a time with ubugtu, but as my new name states, it's just too buggy. Debian "unstable" is a LOT better; but even "sid" with the "experimental" bits and it's nice and clean.

For Desktop I don't need a lot tho, after having spent years using KDE, I gave up with KDE4 and now use LXDE. Basicaly, with mrxvt, I don't need a heck of a lot ;-)
 
Sid is a possibility although i'm quite enjoying getting use to crunch bang now :)

will give sid a go in a week or so.
thanks
 
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