[ Thanks to Chris7mas for this link.
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“Debian is one of the oldest and most popular
distributions among the Linux users. There are probably hundreds of
distributions which are based on Debian, or others which are based
on distributions which in turn are based on Debian. Although I’m
not a Debian developer, I use it for over two years or so, and
slowly got to love this OS.“This is not a ‘Debian is better than X’ article, it’s just
about Debian alone. So, let’s proceed and see what makes Debian so
popular and loved among the Linux users.“Stability. I know as a Debian or Ubuntu (or why not, some other
distribution) user you probably heard this a million times. But
yes, stability. Debian is renowned for the fact that its ‘stable’
version is always released only if all known critical bugs have
been fixed”