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0 pointsjeroenhd13d ago0 comments

If you want that, you don't want Debian. Other people do.

Some people will even run Debian on the desktop. I would never, but some people get real upset when anything changes.

Debian does regularly bring newer versions of software: they release about every two years. If you want the latest and greatest Debian experience, upgrade Debian on week one.

From your description, you seem to want Arch but made by Debian?

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jampekka13d ago

> From your description, you seem to want Arch but made by Debian?

Isn't that essentially Debian unstable (with potentially experimental enabled)? I've been running Debian unstable on my desktops for something like 20 years.

koverstreet13d ago

Well, my workstation runs Debian sid, and all the newer stuff runs NixOS...

But that does nothing for people who write and support code Debian wants to ship - packaging code badly can create a real mess for upstream.

kiney13d ago

I run Debian on desktop and laptops. Because I want stable versions with only security backports

PunchyHamster13d ago

Debian Testing works just fine on desktop and it is up to date enough to not really be an issue.

And despise the name is probably more stable than vast majority of rolling release distros

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