I’m ditching Ubuntu for Debian. But I’m wondering if I shouldn’t use Debian Testing instead of Stable to get more updated software.
Tuxedo OS is going to rebase their distro on Debian Testing, and I’ve heard that it’s actually pretty stable for a non-stable distro, which is why I’m considering it. But, I want your hear about your experience. What kind of trouble do you frequently run into? Any traps I should look out for?
I really want something that’s going to be no-fuss, solid as a rock and that’s simply going to get out of my way. I don’t have time to troubleshoot my PC after a whole ass day of troubleshooting some company’s software shit.
Before you tell me to switch to whatever other distro, I’m not interested. I want to use Debian. I’m used to it’s packaging system and how it’s set up and I know it’s a super stable distro. And I fully support the people behind it and their social contract.
I’ve been running Debian as a daily driver for many many years now and I pretty much always use SID. Once a month I get a package held back and have to do some manual ‘apt-get install’. That’s it. No other issues.
I’ve installed Debian with the sid repo once after using stable for years. That’s where I’ve had my first random system crash where everything just halts like on Windows. It also was a pretty bare system at that point, nothing special installed or configured.
Never again.
Sounds like bad luck. I don’t think I ever had one in the 10+ years I’ve been running SID on various different computers.
Yep also run Debian Sid for more than 20+ years and only thing I would add is install apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges they help to know when you should wait on a package or not or when to pin or not.