To everyone thinking about trying Debian...<p>Normally I run OpenBSD everywhere but I've got a Debian laptop that's nice to use.<p>It's great to try other systems! Even if you're die-hard in favor of something, trying something else will enrich your appreciation or even make you fall in love with it again. Or it could make you realize you've been missing out on some things that are actually pretty cool. And if you're a hacker then maybe you'll just add the missing features. :-)<p>I've been using OpenBSD for almost 20 years so it's sort of a lifelong friend. Even something as amazing as pledge/unveil don't bring me back to that "first time" magic, although I gotta say they bring me <i>pretty</i> close.<p>Some 3rd party software that comes with Debian is newer than that in OpenBSD, and sometimes it's the other way around. Some things are nicer in Debian, like the GUI wifi selection is pretty handy. OpenBSD has excellent wifi support under the hood but no paint job if that makes sense. So at least for a laptop that I'm carrying all over the place, Debian's wifi is pretty great.<p>You should try Debian! And OpenBSD, and Haiku, and ReactOS, or whatever has your curiosity. These days it's comically easy to try a new OS. Even if computers weren't historically cheap, they're so overpowered that you can emulate them and run multiple virtual machines on a single box. "There's never been a better time than now!"<p>I'll probably try VOID Linux next. Definitely give Debian a spin.
Please note: Starting with Debian 7, the minor number is not part of the Debian release number, and numbers with a minor component like 9.4 or 9.7 now indicate a <i>point</i> release. Basically, only security updates and major bug fixes, with new updated installation media images. This, 9.7, is <i>not</i> a new major release of Debian.
Always used Fedora but tempted to give Debian a try. Is there some general consensus on what release to run on a day-to-day workstation? The docs seem to discourage use of testing or sid, but many distros in the debian ecosystem seem to pull from both repositories.