> In my opinion, the only real effort that is required to keep Debian clean is to remember to do the updates regularly, and dist-upgrade semi-regularly. The be

> In my opinion, the only real effort that is required to keep Debian clean is to remember to do the updates regularly, and dist-upgrade semi-regularly. The beauty of Debian is that unattended-upgrades works well enough that most of the time you can defer updates (within one release) to it and don't have to bother at all. My only gripe is that if it breaks, it breaks hard. Botched Arch installations are much easier to fix.