| > Can you just not upgrade on your own machine. How can I know which packages and which versions will be incompatible upgrades beforehand? How can I rely on distribution maintainers to know and warn me against incompatibilities with any kind of customization or 3rd party integration I've had outside of the distribution. Why should I spend time before and after every upgrade to assess something won't/isn't broken. > Why other should suffer? They shouldn't. Dozens of other distributions with different release policies are available and well supported. > I have never (never!) encountered security problems, and sudden config changes in most updates (lates major versions of KDE are exceptions) and this is not a problem at all on my desktop machine. You can't say that as the very first example you've given in your above post, Firefox, has been notorious with the breakages for the better part of the last decade; with every single new release either breaking extensions, removing features that users have relied on, introducing anti-features that required disabling or any combination of these. > Debian is not universal, it's a server distro with desktop packages appeared in repos by as a result of some mistake. You must hurry tell that to Debian developers so they can stop wasting their time packaging thousands of desktop programs, then. |