I mean, yeah, that’s exactly what I’m going to do is stay on stable. Or maybe in a year or two when Trixie gets a little too outdated, I’ll give Siduction a try. As far as Stable goes, I just think people tend to overreact about the packages being older. They’re older for a reason, and bleeding edge distros tend to break more for good reason - even if they have gone through some testing before deployment, you are still running a lot of software that’s basically in beta status. No amount of tests are going to catch every edge case. Even my Fedora laptop occasionally has weird stuff happen after updates sometimes.
But I was just musing about the idea manually giving Debian Cachy-like features. If somebody is recompiling their own kernels and rebuilding whole portions of their system, being on an unstable system isn’t going to be much of an issue. A person with that kind of skillset can handle them self.
edit: oh, also, I’m not going to be running anything strictly current on my machine anyway. My desktop uses a Ryzen 7 2700X and RX 590 - Final Fantasy 16 won’t even start on it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I mean, yeah, that’s exactly what I’m going to do is stay on stable. Or maybe in a year or two when Trixie gets a little too outdated, I’ll give Siduction a try. As far as Stable goes, I just think people tend to overreact about the packages being older. They’re older for a reason, and bleeding edge distros tend to break more for good reason - even if they have gone through some testing before deployment, you are still running a lot of software that’s basically in beta status. No amount of tests are going to catch every edge case. Even my Fedora laptop occasionally has weird stuff happen after updates sometimes.
But I was just musing about the idea manually giving Debian Cachy-like features. If somebody is recompiling their own kernels and rebuilding whole portions of their system, being on an unstable system isn’t going to be much of an issue. A person with that kind of skillset can handle them self.
edit: oh, also, I’m not going to be running anything strictly current on my machine anyway. My desktop uses a Ryzen 7 2700X and RX 590 - Final Fantasy 16 won’t even start on it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯