[OT] Good or best Linux distro?

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Sat Jan 25 17:20:28 PST 2014


On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 07:33:43PM -0500, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
> On 01/25/2014 11:46 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> >On Saturday, 25 January 2014 at 15:52:39 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >>OK, but what I was getting at was that Debian 'unstable' is actually
> >>usable for daily desktop needs in spite of the name.
> >
> >And original rant was that Debian unstable is too _stable_ for desktop
> >use, not the other way around :)
> 
> If you're talking about Nick's rant, he didn't specifically say what
> Debian release he was using, but it was clearly stable, especially
> when he mentions backports. Over the years I've switched from Debian
> stable, to testing, and finally to unstable and haven't looked back.

Makes me wonder if Debian should just rename unstable -> stable, testing
-> very stable, and stable -> very old. :-P


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