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Debian GNU/Linux

How is it? Simply the best at what it does.

Debian has a hard reputation of being geek-oriented, of not being user-friendly. Ok. Maybe I don't know much about much (I've only used Debian since Sarge), but it doesn't sound true considering my personal experience with it.

Debian has always been good to me, and those words now sounds like music to my ears: apt-get, dpkg, make-kpkg. Debian doesn't fall in the trap of over-simplification. It has no does-it-all tools or does-it-for-you utilities. The secret is many little tools that do little things at near perfection. You can play with it, you can change everything about it, you can make it your own: never will it break.

I like everything about this operating system. For anyone looking for a stable yet very powerful OS, it really is the ultimate experience. And for all the hackers out there salivating about Gentoo, well you can hack Debian to the point of over-bleeding-edginess and it will never complain. Compiling a kernel is a breeze, installing packages from source is as easy as "apt-get -b source".

For anyone willing to learn Linux, Debian is just excellent.

Overall...
Turns me on: installer, package management tools & wide selection, stability
Makes me wanna switch to Ubuntu sometimes: out-of-date packages