[Fwd: Re: desktop Linux for a debian user?]

[Mal Beaton <mal@mbeaton.id.au>]

Ignatz Sol wrote:
> > Knoppix, which is Debian-based, installed to the hard drive? Then as
> > your skills grow, you'll eventually be able to convert it to pure Debian.
> >
> > --
>
>  
> Ah, I didn't know that Knoppix was Debian-based!  Knoppix was the
> first Linux that I saw, as I guess it is for many.  That sounds like
> it might be a good idea.
>
>
> > You could try Debian unstable.  Works great on my desktop.
>
>
> I hadn't thought of using unstable.  I'm learning on woody stable,
> though I have pulled a few components from backports.org.  What do you
> mean "it doesn't break much"?
>
> Thanks for the quick replies!  This is great input for me.
Woops sorry about previous top posted by mistake

Sometimes I might do an apt-get update and upgrade and my menus will
stop working sort of

I usually check

http://bugs.debian.org to see if any bugs are listed on it.

however I have used unstable on my laptop with kde  for over a year and
it works very well.

when I say breaks they are usually not show stoppers