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I've used Arch linux on my main computer for the past ~4 years, but I'm considering using Debian on my next computer, just to give it a shot as my daily driver.
by chimeracoder 13y ago
I've used Arch linux on my main computer for the past ~4 years, but I'm considering using Debian on my next computer, just to give it a shot as my daily driver.
Debian packages aren't necessarily much (any?) more stale than they are in Arch. It depends on whether you're using stable, unstable, or testing. (If I remember correctly, "unstable" is actually fairly stable, whereas "stable" is more like an LTS. "testing" is closer to Arch, though less "bleeding edge" than Arch is.)
- sea6ear 13y agoI think that it's stable, testing and unstable in order of stability to instability. Stable is guaranteed long term support. Testing generally has had a week of testing to ensure no obvious catastrophic errors, and unstable is basically as is straight from initial packaging I run testing on my non-prod (experimental) server instances and would probably go with stable for anything production quality, although I've never experienced anything going wrong with Testing. I have my server tied to "Testing" rather than the current name, which turns it into a rolling distribution (like Arch).