[marcosdumay]

Testing is only ok for desktops if you are ok with reinstalling it every so often, like with other distros. It won't last longer than your hardware, and will get odd problems after an upgrade once in a while.

Stable basically means it won't change, and says nothing about freshness. Debian has recently adopted a policy of releasing on a time basis, so it's never very stale.

[pm7]

I used testing for many years without reinstalling.