my love for Linux grows stronger

Have you ever had this experience? You upgrade your device such as a laptop or phone with a new version of the operating system and it just starts glitching out after the upgrade or starts to run slow, or it feels like your device suddenly aged by a few years over night? Yeah, we have all had that experience? Some companies were even guilty of deliberately slowing down devices with software updates.

Now instead of that, have you had an experience when you upgraded the operating system on your device and it actually felt faster, smoother and snappier? I doubt that and even if you have had that experience, have you had it with a device that is as a decade old? This is exactly what happened to me. Two days ago, I upgraded my 10 year old laptop from Debian 12 to Debian 13 and my laptop actually felt snappier, it was faster, and everything was smoother!

If you go to the Debian website, this is what it says about Debian.

Thousands of volunteers around the world work together on the Debian operating system, prioritizing Free and Open Source Software. Meet the Debian project.
source: https://www.debian.org/intro/

That is right! If a group of volunteers from around the world can work together and make something so awesome, what excuse do your mapple and samstunk and macroshift have? By the way, to be clear Debian is not just one piece of software, it is a combination of the Linux kernel which is developed by the Linux kernel development community led by Linus Torvalds, then there is GNU, a collection of software packages that I would argue is what actually gives Linux distributions its superpower, and then there are desktop environments like GNOME and KDE. All of these components and many others are developed by separate groups of mostly volunteer developers and given the world fore FREE!

If something, which on paper sounds absolutely chaotic and absurd produce such amazing, beautiful and efficient software, why do things that we actually pay with our hard earned cash end up function like dogshit?

Anyway, that is a whole other can of worms. Debian 13 is fantastic! And my respect simply grows for the all the developers of different components that make up a Linux distribution. I am so grateful for everyone involved in this amazing project.