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by Daegalus 1043 days ago
From my experience, its much more stable. Sid is "unstable" by Debian's definition, but Debian's definition of Stable is a lot more intense than most other distros.

If you want a little more stability but still rolling release, do Debian Testing. Packages are only really delayed by 2-10 days (except during release windows where they do branching). The only criteria for something getting into Testing is that it passes all tests while in Sid for multiple or all supported platforms.

But overall, Sid is fairly rock solid. If anything I think Rhino Linux should have taken Debian Sid or Testing as a source, adding all the niceties/desktop/sane defaults of Ubuntu that they like. and released that.
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black_puppydog 1043 days ago
I've been running sid aka unstable for years now with very little to no breakage (well, the recent transition to pipewire was a bit fun but seems to have settled now and was never critically broken)

I tried using testing first but did experience more breakage there for some reason. I wonder if that was just bad timing, but like I said, "unstable" has been rock solid for me so I've never looked back.

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Yasuraka 1043 days ago
The next version of Vanilla OS[1] will offer immutable point releases based off of Debian Sid with some extra tools like an integrated distrobox and "sane defaults" without foregoing choices, moving away from Ubuntu after the latter announced ending support for Flatpaks in favor of pushing snaps.

[1] https://vanillaos.org/

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Daegalus 1043 days ago
Yes, I'm eagerly following VanillaOS. I am excited for some of their tools and design.

But it would be also nice to have a standard mutable variant too.

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