<story><title>Debian 9 Stretch released</title><url>https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170617</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lamby</author><text>&amp;gt; I align more with arch&lt;p&gt;Could you briefly outline why? :)</text></item><item><author>agumonkey</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t use debian anymore, was my first linux distro, I align more with arch but I&amp;#x27;m very happy to see you walking steadily.&lt;p&gt;Happy distrofathersday</text></item><item><author>lamby</author><text>Chris Lamb here, Debian Project Leader for 2017. Would love to get your feedback on the parallel &amp;quot;Ask HN&amp;quot; thread here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14579080&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14579080&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>These are not perfectly sensical reasons:&lt;p&gt;- old arch single config file, with &amp;#x27;@&amp;#x27; syntax for parallelism got me hooked; sure it&amp;#x27;s different in systemd days&lt;p&gt;- early problem free systemd adoption&lt;p&gt;- simplified, close to upstream distribution (don&amp;#x27;t want to dig for src, dev, docs etc)&lt;p&gt;- their wiki is the one that speaks the most to my mind, I try to be gentle and objective, but every time, I find solutions in a short amount of time, and even more ideas. They hit a very very sweet spot to me. (gentoo was like that before the data loss)&lt;p&gt;- no installer, might seem stupid but it&amp;#x27;s a bit easier to reason with it; I don&amp;#x27;t have to learn an install framework, it&amp;#x27;s very bare and unixy.&lt;p&gt;- very thin tooling from arch, debian does a lot, but it&amp;#x27;s too heavy for my mind. Things might have changed since I last live in debian but I run a few debian live isos and derivatives and it always feels like &amp;quot;too much&amp;quot;, administrative (as the debian documentation)&lt;p&gt;- rolling by default, debian has testing but it feels riskier&lt;p&gt;- AUR felt simpler (again) than custom apt repos&lt;p&gt;Also I might add that I distanced myself from the OS quest (or if I could I&amp;#x27;d run a lisp or smalltalk fork or something similar). I&amp;#x27;d be happy to hear your suggestions about my points if you have time for that.</text></comment>
<story><title>Debian 9 Stretch released</title><url>https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170617</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lamby</author><text>&amp;gt; I align more with arch&lt;p&gt;Could you briefly outline why? :)</text></item><item><author>agumonkey</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t use debian anymore, was my first linux distro, I align more with arch but I&amp;#x27;m very happy to see you walking steadily.&lt;p&gt;Happy distrofathersday</text></item><item><author>lamby</author><text>Chris Lamb here, Debian Project Leader for 2017. Would love to get your feedback on the parallel &amp;quot;Ask HN&amp;quot; thread here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14579080&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14579080&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrimbault</author><text>Not the OP. But also in the same case, Debian was my first distro, these days I align more with Arch.&lt;p&gt;The ArchWiki is a gift to all the community. Rolling releases, not testing. With Arch there&amp;#x27;s a feeling of &lt;i&gt;owning&lt;/i&gt; your OS without going full LFS. I am currently planning a summer reformatting for a laptop and I can&amp;#x27;t imagine not using Arch.&lt;p&gt;But those are concerns only for my personal computers. On my servers or quick VMs I still prefer Debian.</text></comment>