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> Even just the git has many releases during Debian Stable... It just so happens the software you mentioned, git, is in stable backports, so it is updated freq

by raegis 4y ago

> Even just the git has many releases during Debian Stable... It just so happens the software you mentioned, git, is in stable backports, so it is updated frequently. Regardless, I've been on Debian stable since 2007, and running "bleeding edge" stuff is trivial, depending on your desired workflow. (For example, I just install Debian testing packages in a schroot.) I used to bounce from distribution to distribution in the old days (Red Hat, Mandrake, Slackware, Gentoo, etc.) but once I found Debian Stable I could concentrate on getting work done.

brnt 4y ago
I thought distros were stable until I tried Debian stable... It's stable! I use it everywhere, even my dev machine. Might switch to testing though on the dev machine, 2-3 years of no user software updates is a long time. I know it's unreasonable to ask, but a yearly new stable would be the best of all worlds.
- rovr138 4y ago
  May I ask where you feel it the most? For me it’s definitely been browsers and IDE’s, but I just install those to /opt.
  - brnt 4y ago
    A notoriously finicky piece of software is Akonadi. If you use KDEs otherwise impeccable PIM software (underappreciated if you ask me!) you are probably very familiar with Akonadis random hangs and crashes and corruption. Debian is the first distro where it has been working steadily for more than a few weeks. Steadier than KDEs own Neon and flatpaks.
krzyk 4y ago
I wonder what kind of issues one can get in distros that people prefer stable? What can break? For me it was once, years ago - X didn't start up, fixed in few days after update. Most of breakages of Linux was my own doing (e.g. by mistake overwritting MBR). I use testing+unstable (I didn't know that backports exists, thanks) + self compile some software that doesn't exist in either or is too old. I also always compile kernel, prefer it to have less modules and configured towards performance on desktop.

by raegis 4y ago

brnt 4y ago

I thought distros were stable until I tried Debian stable... It's stable! I use it everywhere, even my dev machine. Might switch to testing though on the dev machine, 2-3 years of no user software updates is a long time. I know it's unreasonable to ask, but a yearly new stable would be the best of all worlds.

rovr138 4y ago
May I ask where you feel it the most? For me it’s definitely been browsers and IDE’s, but I just install those to /opt.
- brnt 4y ago
  A notoriously finicky piece of software is Akonadi. If you use KDEs otherwise impeccable PIM software (underappreciated if you ask me!) you are probably very familiar with Akonadis random hangs and crashes and corruption. Debian is the first distro where it has been working steadily for more than a few weeks. Steadier than KDEs own Neon and flatpaks.

krzyk 4y ago

I wonder what kind of issues one can get in distros that people prefer stable? What can break? For me it was once, years ago - X didn't start up, fixed in few days after update. Most of breakages of Linux was my own doing (e.g. by mistake overwritting MBR). I use testing+unstable (I didn't know that backports exists, thanks) + self compile some software that doesn't exist in either or is too old. I also always compile kernel, prefer it to have less modules and configured towards performance on desktop.