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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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[–] ISO@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My almost 20 years old experience is that it's the worst of all Debian worlds, and none of them are good in any case.

You would be neither getting distro's promised stability, nor would you be close enough to getting upstream's fixes like sid/unstable.

I vaguely remember Gnome's bug tracker filled with duplicate reports about crashes that are long fixed upstream, but also don't trigger in either stable or sid Debian packages. They all came from Debian Testing. Gnome must have been very happy with Debian enabling the crash reporter in their packaging!

Do note that sid/unstable itself becomes as shit as Testing whenever the next Debian release is around the corner, as the project freezes the world in that period (or used to at least).

If you want the imagined stability you guessed you would get from Testing, you can use Ubuntu. At least with that you won't get packages that are left crashing for everyone. Or honestly, if you're on a desktop, just use Arch. The supposed meme about using Arch exists for a reason.

[–] khleedril@cyberplace.social -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@ISO @ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace My 30 years of experience tells me everything you said is wrong.

[–] ISO@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was referring to a 20 year old experience, not 20 years of experience. But I'm glad that triggered you to do a known variation of ad verecundiam.

[–] khleedril@cyberplace.social -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@ISO Go back and reread it; I did not do an ad verecundiam. I think you are an AI.

[–] ISO@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

how ironic