Debian Testing as a daily driver - can anyone share their experience? (piefed.ca)

submitted 2 months ago by ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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I'm ditching Ubuntu for Debian. But I'm wondering if I shouldn't use Debian Testing instead of Stable to get more updated software.

Tuxedo OS is going to rebase their distro on Debian Testing, and I've heard that it's actually pretty stable for a non-stable distro, which is why I'm considering it. But, I want your hear about your experience. What kind of trouble do you frequently run into? Any traps I should look out for?

I really want something that's going to be no-fuss, solid as a rock and that's simply going to get out of my way. I don't have time to troubleshoot my PC after a whole ass day of troubleshooting some company's software shit.

Before you tell me to switch to whatever other distro, I'm not interested. I want to use Debian. I'm used to it's packaging system and how it's set up and I know it's a super stable distro. And I fully support the people behind it and their social contract.

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[-] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 3 points 2 months ago

I get the advice that you can use flatpak if you want more up to date applications but what if I want an up to date version of gnome? :/ as an UI UX nerd honestly I care more about getting to use the best version of the desktop interface I'm using.

I wish there was a good totally independent distro for my needs. Debian gives an old version of your DE and doesnt ship vanilla packages, arch is very roll-your-own and more likely to experience breakage than fits me, void has honestly been the closest. I'm just not really fit for trying to set up and maintain a minimal distro, and honestly with gnome building more and more sysd dependencies I dunno if they'll keep building work-arounds so gnome is usable. Sadly I'm very tied to gnome, in spite of the project being managed.... Differently from how I would like to see it managed 🥲

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