Hey linux community so I wanted to ask the community what are the most important distro's that you would wanna learn and thats for intermediate linux users I'm not really new but still new has some of you been using linux for 25+ years ive only been using linux for 4 months now and love it been learning and catching on pretty quickly id say ive been using debian buster 10.6 for the last 3 months anyone else have any recommendations?

Slackwarethen LFS

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Have you visited http://distrowatch.com ?

IMHO: KEEP your Debian as your BASE.
Add virtualbox (PKG or .org) then centos, then slackware VMs.

Then look up and play with advanced Linux topics. Wander where ever your interests take you!

Understand everything from the ground up!

P. S. I loved minimal Linux live for this
Because it is just the kernel (understand syscalls, man 2)
And BusyBox (look that one up!)

BTW, it's listed site, where I used to get the tiny<10MB! .iso, is gone. Does anyone know where I can find the *32bit* (not 64) .iso now?
(Yes, I know it's intended to be 'built', a great little exercise for the OP, but I'm infinitely lazy.)

Add an OLD version of Vbox to a 20yr obsolete 0.5G ram winXP landfill, and you can actually explore dpkg & rpm! For real! I used to download the static bash.deb because bb's built-in sh is ash. Then get telnet[d] running over a bridged VB network.

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It depends on what you want to accomplish.

Debian is already very good for a lot of users.

If you want to develop software, Slackware is better because it includes by default all the developer tools, libraries, and headers.
Ed

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All the necessary developer tools can be installed on a Debian system, you don't need to change to another distro to learn programming.

There is no intermediate Linux, you just begin exploring the system & start learning how it all works.

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I would say, ultimately, any distro; it depends on how you use it. Underneath the various GUIs, the command line is the command line. And, ultimately, the command line is always faster, as long as you know the commands that you want to use.

I started with Slackware, and I've glad I did, because it required me to learn the basics of the command line and, in particular, how to compile software packages from sources and resolve dependencies. My favorites are Slackware, Debian, and Mageia.

I tend to avoid distros that have short version release cycles, like Fedora and non-LTS *buntus, as well as those that exist primarily to support a particular desktop environment.

Just a few thoughts.

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You can learn on any distro — if you like Debian, then stick with it.

You get a lot of recommendations for Slackware on this site because it's the only forum for that distro, so all its users come here. Conversely, you get few PCLinuxOS users here because we have our own forum with full developer participation.

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Awesome!! thank you ill definitely do that with the virtual box has I do wanna play around with that a bit I also wanna start playing around with ssh and that kind of stuff in that nature has well Debian I think will always be my favorite just feels right anyways thank you for the reply!

Thank you all for taking ur time and reading and replying all these replies are good answers that helped me out thanks linux crew once again!

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