I’m probably the same as you. I like computers, I like technical stuff, a command line is intimidating but not scary, I don’t hate troubleshooting and fixing my own computer when I inevitably break something (well, I hate troubleshooting less than I hate trusting anyone else with my computer), and I got into Linux for political reasons (one, freedom and community are important to me as a communist, two, I don’t feel comfortable using products from US companies, if I can avoid it, at this time) and went with something based on Debian.

The difference is that I’d never used Linux before when I found out it existed and was already thinking that it’d be nice if I could ditch Windows because I really don’t want to rely on US corpos anymore.

Yeah. If you don’t want to treat your computer like a project car, you want it to be like a reliable mom van, you want Debian based stability, not the cool bleeding edge stuff.

Though, I will say, a spare computer to tinker with and bleeding edge stuff does cost less than most mechanical projects. (My dad has multiple project cars. My mum yells at him about it in front of the rest of the family. At least he does tend to sell them for a small profit when he gets them running smoothly, he likes doing the project and making money off it more than he actually likes any of the busted up cars he buys as projects. My mum mostly just doesn’t like all the space they take up.)

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