People over #debian or your sysadmin friends are entitled to their own opinions and not representative of Debian users other than themselves, and for every rand

People over #debian or your sysadmin friends are entitled to their own opinions and not representative of Debian users other than themselves, and for every random recommendation for not using stable you can find another random one about dangers of using testing or unstable. If you check the Debian web site you'll see stable is the only one which is offically supported and recommended by the project and there is no distinction for "server" or "desktop" use cases. Had stable was non-suitable as a desktop OS you can be sure Debian developers wouldn't bother releasing and supporting thousands of desktop/graphical packages with the stable release. In the end stable, testing and unstable have all their pros and cons, strong and weak areas and some are more suitable for some use cases. That Debian stable is only for servers and it is not a good desktop OS is a myth that needs to die. Stable is a damn fine desktop OS. Everyone is free to use whatever they deemed best for their use but when you post blanket statements like "You. Are. Not. Supposed. To. Install. Debian. Stable. On. A. Desktop. Machine." and "Stable is for servers" on a public forum you are spreading misinformation and you should just stop.