The popularity of these derived distros is mostly due to their creators’ small amount of effort making fancy-looking desktop themes, and their large marketing budgets. Many people know the core Debian tools quite well, although often because they are using a Debian derivative such as Ubuntu or Linux Mint (which is in fact an Ubuntu derivative).

It’s one of the more mature Linux distros, with its first public release ( version 0.01) on, and its first stable release ( version 1.1), named “buzz”, on. It has a reputation of not breaking very often, and because of that, it’s used as a base for many other Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint Debian Edition, Kali Linux, Devuan, Deepin, Raspberry Pi OS, BunsenLabs Linux, Qubes OS, Tails, SteamOS, and many others. I also provide an easy way for you to do them automatically.ĭebian is a rock-solid distro of choice for many Linux users, both new and skilled alike.

After installing Debian, people often want to do a few extra setup tasks which I’ll discuss in this article.

Debian 11 installation guide