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Debian Testing as a daily driver - can anyone share their experience? (piefed.ca)
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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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[–] farooqkz@realbitcoin.cash 1 points 4 days ago

Ello Ello.

Before anything else, I want to make it clear that choice of distro is much personal. Like choice of editor, desktop environment, color and so on.

I am a software developer, a game developer, and also an AI researcher. And I do need low level access to the machine. Not just because I would need to but also because I want to learn.

For me Debian Testing didn't work out very well. I had it for Desktop usage. And most of the time, I wanted a newer version of the kernel or the software. On Debian the packages were either too new and unstable or too old. I then moved to Arch Linux which didn't work out either. The changes were way fast there. So now I'm on Alpine.

There are other reasons I have chosen Alpine over Debian and Arch. One thing is systemd. Tho many people are fine with systemd, it didn't work out well for me. And as I want to learn about low level stuff on the OS, down to the kernel, Alpine is simpler.