Debian 12, after a period of using Ubuntu that ended when Canonical decided to put advertising in the friggin cli. Oh, and pushing snap, but the advertising is what really nailed it for me. ;)
I realy like debian but is there any equivalent to yum ? It did some really nice advanced stuff I don't think you can replicate with apt. The shell mode avoided me some really big trouble several times (erlang updates often made me uninstall anything using it on update).
Current job doesn't give me many chances to use linux rn so I'm a bit out of touch. Recently took a look at rocky and it felt like a centos. also tried ubuntu but I recall I had to remove some ads package yeah.
Funnily enough, years ago, I migrated from Debian as my daily driver to (at the time) "Fedora Core" on my desktop.
My first question was "what's the replacement for aptitude", and people pointed me to "yum shell". It was not as good, but I got used to it, and went with it.
If you run "aptitude" on debian, without any argument, you end up in a TUI, you can use it to install or remove packages from your system, and then see the "preview" of the change, and apply/cancel the change. The same way people use "yum shell".
I'm used to new "dnf shell", so I don't miss aptitude anymore, but I think aptitude is what you're looking for.
Interesting, in my head aptitude was an ubuntu thing so I never tried in debian. Thanks for the tip.
I don't have anything against apt, it's just specific edge cases when it really saved me massive headaches by being able to remove and add during same change without having to remove all apps depending on it.
And the logs. I think it's every 30 minutes or so that "buy Ubuntu advantage" gets logged, you have to disable a systemd timer to get rid of it.