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I am thinking about switching from Windows to Debian 12 Bookworm

I used Ubuntu in my college for some light programming and felt really happy about it.

I am more interested in switching to Debian 12 than Ubuntu, since the former is really stable. Also, I came to know installing Debian is easier since it supports non free firmware.

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  • Stable just means no major version jumps in software that might break your current setup. That's important for operating servers, not desktops.

    I use debian Sid (unstable) at work and never had problems. Most of the time I get updates prior to other distributions I am using.

    At home I use arch (derivates, manjaro), with great success.

    I would abstain from Ubuntu. There, I had problems, it is very opinionated and not in s good way.

    In a general sense I would always chose a distribution that isn't too locked in to a certain desktop environment and provides updates, quickly.