 This video is in response to a question that I asked on my YouTube channel I've kind of talked about it before but I thought I'd just do a quick short video a quick short video on the topic And I'm not dissing any other distro, but someone asked me why I choose Debian as my main distribution for my computers and There's a few few reasons and the main reason one of the main reasons is their repositories the repositories are very full More software packages than most other distros or at least many other distros I should say I'm not saying there aren't other ones out there with more packages They do a great job maintaining them they have Debian unstable Testing and stable you can't call something stable unless it's thoroughly been tested not just by developers but by lots of people So everything has to go through Unstable and testing before it gets to stable So that means stable might be a little bit older, but you know that it's it's it's stable So if you have a very important system Debian stables the way to go now on my desktop my laptop for probably at least five years Now I've been running Debian unstable and very rarely do I ever have any problems so There's that but definitely it's great to Have that stable release for a system that's very important a server Maybe that you're running a business on or something like that And most other distributions don't do that that model where they have untested stable and Untested unstable tested and stable, but a lot of distributions are based off Debian So they benefit from that anyway, and so I think it's great that Debian does this so definitely Their repositories and a lot of things to do with the repositories again The number of packages the fact that things are stable and they also break their repositories down into free and non-free Repositories so if you want to make sure that you only stick with free software you can choose ones that are under an open license where certain Things where you might want to use usually drivers and other proprietary stuff You know that you're not installing them if you leave those repositories out and then Another thing I like about Debian is just that you have options to do you know a desktop install Or I have which I've never done I I like that you can do a minimal stop install with Debian You can get yourself a little 10 megabyte file and do a network install and it's fairly minimal And then I can install software as I need it Distributions like Ubuntu and Linux Mint are great for out of the box a usage They have pretty much everything that you'll need on a common system But you'll have a lot of things that you don't necessarily use because everyone needs different things So to use those for system installs for myself I don't normally do because it's very easy again with package managers to if I'm doing something and I'm like Oh, I need to open you know an office file and I barely really use the Libre office I can install it in like a minute and I'm good to go So I just install software as I need it and I also have a script That does an install and my default settings that I like on my system So once I install Debbie and I run that and it installs the stuff that I always want install and then beyond that I install stuff as I go But going back to things like Linux Mint and and Ubuntu Again, they're great for live CDs live USBs because when you're running a system like that, you know You plug it in you want to be working, you know, and I think that's great So basically there's three main distros I like again for installs on my systems My desktop in my laptop. I use Debian If but I carry around a flash drive, which actually has multiple distributions on it But for live systems, I usually use Linux Mint And if I'm installing for somebody else that I don't necessarily I'm not going to sit there and get the system All set up how they want it and they may not know, you know What they want which a lot of users don't I'll install Linux Mint usually with Xfce because that's the desktop I've been running for a couple of years and I used to switch my desktop interface a lot And my window manager and stuff like that, but I've been pretty much set with Xfce It's somewhat lightweight and very simple and straightforward and a lot of the programs use are linked to the desktop specifically so Linux Mint would be my choice for live USB and installing for friends and then a third third distribution I like is Slitaz which I use which I probably pronounce wrong. I've done videos on in the past It's a very lightweight about 30 megabytes Operating system with a full desktop and basic tools and I'll use that on lighter weight and older systems And I think it's great. Another great lightweight one is on tiny core And I think tiny core is great, too I just usually go with Slitaz because I'm Just more comfortable with it because I've used it more. I find it a little more For something so minimal a little more out of the box ready Tiny core is truly like a very very minimal system. I think it's only like 10 megabytes Maybe 15 with a desktop. Don't quote me on that, but it's something like that But then again, you know both of them once you start installing stuff it gets larger But those are great lightweight or if you just want to run from RAM Which you can do with other operating systems, but since they're so lightweight they copy over to RAM pretty fast But Slitaz I definitely just a little bit nicer for for beginners like if I knew someone who who Never used Linux before or just isn't big on you know Computers in general, but they have a really old machine which still at that point I probably still would do Debian, but if I just wanted to install something quick Slitaz is probably where I go Tiny core probably had it seems like it's a little more developed a little more recognized Slitaz development seems slow, but it is constant So yeah, that's why I choose Debian and that's why I also like Linux Mint and Slitaz those are my three top distributions Let me know in the comments below what distros you like and why and again I did not make this video to criticize or recool or anything about other distributions Just why I choose what I choose and again Linux is links got Linux kernel and a basic Linux shell, you know, I'm pretty happy I mean obviously there's other things that are important, but Good to go after that Thanks for watching. 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