> P.S.: Yes, "that much" is a perfectly valid thing to say. I don't think they want 0 breaks but one thing those stable distros can do is isolate you from brea

> P.S.: Yes, "that much" is a perfectly valid thing to say. I don't think they want 0 breaks but one thing those stable distros can do is isolate you from breaking changes. Think semantic versioning but for package lists. Especially if there are packages that don't play well with each other. iirc gtk2 vs. gtk3 was one such thing? There's a reason a lot of people still use debian etc.. on servers. It is that they just chose a configuration that works and they don't care for/about any breaking updates - as long as they get stable security patches etc..