For me, Debian was worth switching to broadband (Score 1)

I have 2 RedHat 9 boxes at home: mine + my girlfriend's and in preparation for today I bought broadband to replace my dialup account so I can do a net install of Debian without leaving the phone connected for days. I have used slackware, RedHat (4.2?onwards), SUSE, Mandrake and others and, whilst the other distributions usually look nicer on initial install, Debian has always been the least hassle to maintain. I was tempted away from Debian at home by the slick antialiasing in RedHat 9 but now of course I wish I had just been patient and waited for Debian to catch up. I've been using Debian as my desktop at work for many years and I think my personal productivity has been significantly enhanced by Debian as it just works all the time. In fact, having thought about my Debian experience over the last 10 years whilst writing this note, I think I'll make a donation to the Debian project right now.