By our very own @andreas Read about his two main reasons for wanting to switch to Debian:
Thank you for sharing here! 
That’s very kind of you, I wasn’t yet sure if I could give it its own topic. Always happy to receive comments and feedback!
Edit: If anyone has got some ideas for my home server, I’d love to hear as well. I don’t want to host things on it that should be accessible from the outside, but for example, now, I’ve got a Jellyfin instance running on it.
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Nice article @andreas! Though Fedora has improved a lot in recent years, one thing that changes a lot are packages. A derivative of Debian called siduction is a lot like that; it works great but it’s constantly changing. I have a copy of siduction on one of my older systems and I probably hadn’t used it in a month. Most of the system was replaced when I updated. The previous time I updated I’d estimate that over 95% of it was updated due to the system sitting idle for a long time.
As far as your home server goes, I don’t know what kinds of things you like to do, but a print service, remote file service, a movie streaming service are a few of the things I can think of as possibilities; what you choose to do depends on what you like to have running in your home. Hopefully that will give you some ideas and you can choose things that are accessible from your other computers or network devices in the home.
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Thank you Brian for your comments! Yes, and I think it’s fine—it’s a philosophy choice but maybe one that does not resonate with me as much any more.
I also wasn’t entirely sure, since I think most of the things I really need I’ve also got going on (like cloud storage, email, etc.). Thank you for the suggestions though!
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Well you got tired of the same things I did with Fedora, the constant changing of the Nvidia Drivers. I used AMD GPUs for quite a while but the computer I currently have came with Nvidia GPUs and an Intel CPU (I used to use AMD CPUs as well) Debian does a great job with it’s explanation of how it works with Nvidia; now to get Nvidia to explain what drivers go with what GPUs in an understandable manner.
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Yes, the last bit took a bit of work, but figured it out fortunately. Completely agree with you though, and I’m also slightly relieved to hear I’m not the only one with those gripes with Fedora.
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Just try Kali install. 
Don’t install any tools: Get Kali | Kali Linux. Rolling release, you can even switch to kali-last-snapshot:
- kali-last-snapshot is a branch of Kali that can be used if users want a more standard feeling of software control. For every new release, we freeze the code and merge
kali-rollingintokali-last-snapshot, at which point users will get all of the updates between versioned releases (i.e. 2020.3 → 2020.4). This often is more stable, as packages are not updated (until the next release as it’s a “Point Release”) and go through our release testing. This is the “safest” option.
Gnome and XFCE are polished nicely (never tried KDE). For Debian lovers… thank me later.
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My pleasure @andreas! The @hydn suggestion of Kali might work if you’re going the Debian route but you don’t want to get on the installation bandwagon; if you just want rarely changing code Debian’s got it. I go with a lean Debian derivative myself - antiX; that may not be what’s best for you though, so Hayden has a great suggestion!
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Thanks for the suggestions @hydn and @Brian_Masinick ! I will stay with my Debian for now - I like to use the “base” distro and especially moved here because I didn’t want as many updates any more.
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That makes good sense @andreas
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