Then again, I’m not sure if for servers, Debian is still as important as it used to be.
I’m probably overly generalizing, but often all you need is a few daemons installed natively (SSH, Docker, firewall), and your reverse proxy and any services are then managed e.g. via docker compose.
There are variations on this, but with the fraction of packages installed via the distro’s package manager having become smaller like that, what distro you use for a server should not impact your QoL as severely as it used to I think.
Your point about desktop usage still holds of course.
I don’t think mbw is saying that Debian isn’t great for servers. What they’re saying is that what distro your server is running is becoming less and less important over time.
Then again, I’m not sure if for servers, Debian is still as important as it used to be. I’m probably overly generalizing, but often all you need is a few daemons installed natively (SSH, Docker, firewall), and your reverse proxy and any services are then managed e.g. via docker compose.
There are variations on this, but with the fraction of packages installed via the distro’s package manager having become smaller like that, what distro you use for a server should not impact your QoL as severely as it used to I think.
Your point about desktop usage still holds of course.
My servers run debian 12, its just a great distro for servers.
I don’t think mbw is saying that Debian isn’t great for servers. What they’re saying is that what distro your server is running is becoming less and less important over time.