After years of distro hopping, I had one to many updates which borked some driver & realized what I’m really looking for is my laptop should be boring stable appliance. Incredibly happy with it so far.
After years of distro hopping, I had one to many updates which borked some driver & realized what I’m really looking for is my laptop should be boring stable appliance. Incredibly happy with it so far.
Debian often is several releases behind on package versions, mostly because they test the crap out of everything and try to keep it all as compatible as possible.
You often need to venture outside of their repos if you want the latest of something.
The trade off is no surprises, stability is top priority.
I’ve been using Debian for about 25 years. Sure, stable is pretty slow to update, but I don’t know why anyone would use that unless it’s some production server. I’ve never had an issue with outdated packages because testing/unstable is pretty close to any other rolling release.
Honestly, we use stable on our laptop because we just don’t care about it having the latest everything.
Our desktop gets testing+unstable, though.