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So unstable is reasonably stable?

• icebraining 13y ago
  Yes. Been using it on my desktop for five years, had one single instance of breakage, which is better than my Ubuntu workstation.
• jhaywood 13y ago
  Except for experimental, which isn't even a coherent system, all of debian's branches are relatively stable. For personal desktop use I find unstable (Sid) to be just fine. I know it sounds bad but my rule of thumb for avoiding major problems is this: If synaptic wants to delete a bunch of important looking packages during an update - hold off a few days for things to settle down.