Using Stable doesn't mean that you are not getting new releases of consumer software. It only means more vetting and the fact that fundamental changes (like swi

Using Stable doesn't mean that you are not getting new releases of consumer software. It only means more vetting and the fact that fundamental changes (like switching from X to Wayland) are not going to happen all of a sudden. Read Ubuntu's or Mint's "What's new" posts to understand what kind of changes we are talking about. There is a reason why Release Candidates exist. There is a reason why testing exists and why, despite that, there will always be things not working for the first time, that would require bug-fixing releases. And yes, Stable releases being more stable than bleeding-age, is a mathematical/statistical fact. You can prove it yourself with the magic of a spreadsheet: - Make a graph that grows X1% on average. This indicates the quality of the software (it is getting better, after all; otherwise there would be no point in updating). But that is the average growth. In practice it is random; daily it can grow or decline by X2, pretty severely as well, but on average it grows. - You can play with X1 and X2 numbers. - Calculate percentages that the update will be better than the previous state for both cases: (1) update 365 times, (2) update 2 times - also take into account that dropping the quality is not equal in strength to growing by the same number. There is a good reason why people are risk-aversed. Quality being dropped means all kinds of trouble and should be calculated as negatively impacting the following X3 (play with this number) days. If you do that, you will mathematically prove me right. :-)