Well it may be a bad time to start with Debian unstable, when they are switching to systemd (or are in the process of doing it). I remember updating to Debian

Well it may be a bad time to start with Debian unstable, when they are switching to systemd (or are in the process of doing it). I remember updating to Debian testing (never had the nerves for unstable) when they switched to Gnome3 and I experienced bugs (and really nasty ones). When they make big changes it is going to break things. If you don't want to have things broken, either use a stable distribution, don't upgrade for some time or live with it. Right now I am using Arch Linux mostly - but I've heard the change to systemd had some rough edges for Arch Linux too (didn't use it at this time). I can say that I am completely fine with systemd on Arch Linux and I don't understand the big problem some people have with it (on a philosphical level I do understand them, but not on a pragmatic level).