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would you recommend debian testing for a daily driver? (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 1 year ago by tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hello! I'm thinking about switching from my beloved fedora to a rolling release distro, because it really intrigues me, but I'm a bit scared of Arch, it's still too soon for me to go down this rabbit hole XD
what do you think about debian testing? It's not a "true" rolling release as long as I understand, but it "practically" behaves like one, correct? On the system informations I still see Debian 12, what will happen when Debian 13 stable will be released?

sorry if these are silly questions and thanks to all in advance!

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[–] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

thanks for the answer! I have installed it on a VM and noticed that only firefox-esr is present, which is a couple of versions behind. Why isn't a "normal" firefox package included? and also, does installing firefox from the unstable branch causes any problems to other packages, conflicts, etc, or is it completely safe?

[–] rstein@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

That is standard in all of Debian, just get it as a flatpack.

[–] words_number@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, that's why I installed it from unstable. The ESR version is an older version with added security patches. I'm not sure, why exactly they are doing it like that and I don't think it's a good idea. I'd say a browser should be as up to date as possible for both, bug fixes AND new features. But it worked flawlessly using the "unstable" firefox package. Another option would be the flatpak, but that's not that well integrated into the system - last time I tried that, the font rendering in the browser was awkward. I use some other flatpaks though, most notably gimp and inkskape which work really well and are very up to date that way.

[–] Monologue@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

i encountered the font rendering bug as well, it seemed to be caused by x11 font packages and simply removing those with

sudo apt remove xfonts-base xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi

solved the problem, here is a more detailed explanation