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Re: Debian - Release Cadence Options



On Sat Oct 18, 2025 at 00:17 CEST, Antoine Le Gonidec wrote:
> In my 15 years of user support, a huge majority of reported problems
> were with testing. But the sample might be biased by testing being the
> one chosen by less experienced users, wrongly thinking it would be some
> kind of middle ground between stable and unstable.

It sort of is a middle ground between stable and unstable. You have
newer versions than stable and a sort of rolling release but the chance
of getting hit by breaking bugs is a lot lower compared to using
unstable.

I am using testing for ~15 years on my main laptop and it never happened
that my system totally broke or was unbootable, which sometimes can
happen in unstable. If there is a security issue or a bug, there often
is already a fixed version in unstable which I could easily cherrypick
(I always have testing and unstable in my sources.list with a pinning to
prefer testing).

Best regards,
Martin

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