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Debian Testing as a daily driver - can anyone share their experience? (piefed.ca)

submitted 2 days ago by ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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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.

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well if you want no fuss solid stable, then you should probably use Debian stable and not testing.

What more updated software do you find you need that's missing from stable? Any software I use where I want the fancy new current features, I install via flatpak, external repo, pip, compile from source, or whatever. I can't think of any time where I went "oh but I can't get that on stable".

You can start on stable and upgrade to testing later on if you really want to. But you can't downgrade from testing to stable without reinstalling.

[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mostly for the more up to date KDE Plasma desktop.

I've heard that even testing is pretty table. Set up with BTRFS, Timeshift, and grub-btrfs I think I'd be pretty safe to rollback if any problems should occur after an update.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah that'll probably work. There isn't a good way to get newer KDE on stable. You'd probably just have to use a different distro that tries to be stable while also pulling new packages faster. Maybe fedora or a derivative.