Not the OP. But also in the same case, Debian was my first distro, these days I ...

		jrimbault on June 18, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Debian 9 Stretch released Not the OP. But also in the same case, Debian was my first distro, these days I align more with Arch. The ArchWiki is a gift to all the community. Rolling releases, not testing. With Arch there's a feeling of owning your OS without going full LFS. I am currently planning a summer reformatting for a laptop and I can't imagine not using Arch. But those are concerns only for my personal computers. On my servers or quick VMs I still prefer Debian.

I was writing my answer while you did so, you summarized my views quite nicely. It's funny that we were attracted by very similar, implicit traits.