>since it is more stable than unstable
That's not true, what makes you think that?
DEBIAN IS SHIT
Isaac Peterson
Austin Ramirez
>They think they know more about computers than Ubuntufags which is laughable
I believe they know more or equal to, but i agree that they are pretentious af compared to ubuntufags.
Cooper Cooper
>what makes you think that?
posts in debian forums,reddit and related online communities(including Jow Forums)
and the fact that it ensures dependencies can be resolved
Adam Jones
for fucks sake can you idiots stop making shitty threads
Colton Hernandez
>Literal joke, packages are enormous blobs but no no, only pay attention to package count and ignore it was one of the first to move to poettershit. Literally not minimalist.
i like how configurable it is, okay? and it's the only distro to ever just werk for me. so. stop being so mean pls ;(
Sebastian Richardson
Sid gets frozen too.
It's only for a few months before every release so it doesn't bother me, but if it annoys you just use sid which should have the suitable libs for compiling what you want.
I used arch for like 3 years before realizing that the only software I NEEDED to be 100% up to date is retroarch and mpv, so I just compile them from source now.
Not a big deal for me since it's just 2 programs but if the number is bigger for you than debian just isn't the one.
Joshua James
>it ensures dependencies can be resolved
No it doesn't.
It's true that unstable is more often in a state where one or more packages are deemed broken, but these last at most few days.
On the other hand testing has numerous methods of failing, a package may be pulled because it fails tests or is otherwise deemed unfit, that may have dependency ramifications.
A broken package may enter testing, uploads are automatic and don't catch all cases.
A big transition is underway, see glibc for example.
Testing has more profound breakages, they last longer and might be intentional by the developers.
I'd never use testing over unstable, testing is purely used and aimed by developers.
Where as unstable has an unofficial status of being usable on the desktop.
Go ask #debian or better yet #debian-devel if you don't believe me.
Alexander Flores
while you're right, if something does catastrophically breaks like that you can just log into a tty, change your sources to sid or downgrade the broken package and be on your merry way.
unless you're fucking around with PPAs on stable it's REALLY hard to completely break a debian install.
Noah Rogers
I don't think most people realize how good Debian's (and Ubuntu's) source repos are. This is one of the main reasons I have trouble going elsewhere. I've grown attached to CentOS lately, but its software is old. This wouldn't be an issue, but try doing yum-builddep for anything multimedia. It just isn't there.
Nolan Howard
Use Sid desu.