I am thinking of moving to linux (Debian seemed to suite me) from Windows. I have used lubuntu and and ubuntu somewhat before, but their use has been very limited.
My main use would be to do statistical programming on R and Python. Does Debian have all the CRAN packages I can install on Windows? What about packages on Python? Does Debian suite me at all or should I look elsewhere?
Yes it does but it will be outdated and stable.
I recommend Fedora even though I have never used R personality. Another option is to use distrobox with podman in order to run any distro
Fedora has a COPR containing all the R modules.
I personally run Rstudio + copr + modules through a distrobox container to keep my system clean.
Isn’t Copr slow?
The website is, the repos idk no complaints really.