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would you recommend debian testing for a daily driver? (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello! I'm thinking about switching from my beloved fedora to a rolling release distro, because it really intrigues me, but I'm a bit scared of Arch, it's still too soon for me to go down this rabbit hole XD
what do you think about debian testing? It's not a "true" rolling release as long as I understand, but it "practically" behaves like one, correct? On the system informations I still see Debian 12, what will happen when Debian 13 stable will be released?

sorry if these are silly questions and thanks to all in advance!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Debian Documentation is very extensive and it extensively explains that you should use Sid and not Testing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

why? isn't it more stable than unstable?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@tubbadu the problem are security updates, that get to testing later

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

isn't this also true for stable?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@tubbadu no, stable gets them sooner than testing https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-manual/ch10.en.html#security-support-testing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

oh this is strange! thank you very much!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Integrating debsecan with apt and pulling security updates from experimental and unstable is trivial as demonstrated here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@TunaCowboy nice, thanks!

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