Fedora is also worth a look, Debian was my first distro so I always appreciate keeping up with it. But Fedora is SUPER stable and also a top option for privacy and security, so I switched over.
The beauty is, once you install it, you can go years before you need to install clean again.
I last re-built my home server in 2019 with Buster and it still has LTS for another year. That's more than enough time to prepare for a rebuild and adjust any of my own custom crap for the latest release.
As an alternate to Flatpack, I have been using LXC to run the latest and greatest while still keeping a stable and predictable host. It's awesome because you can operate an LXC container exactly as if it were a VM or physical machine compared to the more rigid platform of Docker.
I recently started using Linux again after a 15+ year hiatus. The Debian installer looks exactly the same as it did when I stopped using it. I'm not hating, just stating why it might look outdated for some people.
I love that it doesn't change. I don't like that when I boot from a ventoy disk it doesn't install a boot loader. Took me like 5 installs to figure out what was going on.
Debian’s “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” philosophy is why I use Debian for all my servers. I would rather have something look old and be functional every time.
Not having them pretty much makes Debian a non-starter for many home users. It's a thing that one really only runs into when they get serious about using Linux.
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