Debian is a lightweight, robust, and fully customizable Linux OS that is also free and open-source.

The best part about Debian is that it's a free and open-source Linux-based operating system that is being developed and maintained by a community of people like us. New versions of Debian are released approximately every two years with five years of LTS. It is a good choice for web servers, personal computers, and IoT devices. It comes with extensive hardware support and 59000 installable packages. Many popular Linux distros like Ubuntu, Devuan, and Deepin are based on the Debian Linux system.

Debian LTS versions may not be always uptodate with security patches. Nonfree hardware drivers have to be downloaded from third-party websites. Limited enterprise-level support.

I've used a LOT of different distros over a lot of years - starting with Slack when it first came out, and Redhat (before it was Fedora), Arch, CentOS, and OpenSUSE to name a few. Debian stands out as the no-nonsense distro for production systems.

Debian strikes the perfect balance between new-package availability and system stability... which is exactly what's needed for a production application environment. In my opinion, Debian (and Debian-based distros) have the best package manager: apt (and apt get).

Debian outshines other distros as a production server, but it falls behind other distros as a desktop distro, like Ubuntu, that trade a bit of stability for more cutting-edge applications and application versions. That said, you can usually strike your own balance between new versions and stability by using Personal Package Archives (PPAs).

The best of Debian are: very adapted for different hardware, customizable and safe.

The worst of Debian are: Buggy updates and more difficult to install than other distributions.

I have been using the Debian since the potato version. compare to other Linux distros like the RPM-based (Redhat, centos), based on my personal experience Debian is the best. It really suit my need for a powerful server service on the cloud base or on premise

- stable, debian only release the stable package, means that only if the app has been tested it will be deploy /reelease. - powerful, time has proved that debian is the most powerful linux distro - a lot of other distro using debian as the based, example ubuntu - off course its free, no charge at all when you used it

- no official support only community - no long time support - late on release the new version

Debian has always been stable, widely supported very popular works on any type of processors or devises. even if there isn't an official release from Debian that support certain devises there would a community forked distribution based on Debian that support it.

Debian Linux is one of the oldest last real Open source projects still standing, supported developed and driven by the community, unlike many other open source projects that has already given up and got infiltrated by big tech money or influence. Debian is still a real free open source project as in freedom. Debian is also the base and seed for alot of other widely used Linux distributions and open source projects specially Ubuntu Linux, and speaking of Ubuntu I always recommend Debian over Ubuntu Ubuntu is not a real open source project, Ubuntu is just one those many other commercial companies that tries to profit from the open source community projects, which threatens the open source world more than it may benefit it, For stability long term support and to avoid surprises that a company may decide to kill one version to sell you the next release or their newest product. sticking with Debian it's much safe for that regard. because if it benefits the community that a project stays alive forever it will stay alive forever, supported and driven by the community that use it and that's exactly what Debian has been.

There is nothing i can think of that's wrong with Debian, other than commercially supported projects like Ubuntu trying to overlap with Debian and keep it off the picture, to build their commercial brand that will be selling later. Debian Linux has a new release every 2 years with long term support limited to 5 years compared to projects tied or dependant on commercial Linux specially RedHat Enterprise based distribution which offer long term support for up to 9 years. with a release every 3 to 4 years.