Mint is a goto debian distro, but I switched from Debian unstable to mint and my experience is worse. PulseAudio is wierd, when suspensing last 1 sec of audio loops, crashes, Mint is based on testing irc.

  • themachine@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I exclusively use Debian stable. I ran unstable for a while but in general I never felt like it gave me anything I needed. I also do not recommend running unstable unless you’re very familiar with Debian and are easily able to work out issues. They didn’t come up often, but they did come up.

    • pewpew@feddit.it
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      2 days ago

      I agree.

      I switched to unstable because I wanted the latest kernel and latest Plasma, my experience has been mostly positive but there are weird issues like not being able to install ffmpeg due to some dependency conflict. I can compile ffmpeg from source and install just fine tho

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 days ago

      i last used unstable back in 2007 and it wasn’t that much different that stable; has it gotten worse?

      • themachine@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 days ago

        Not at all. I didn’t mean to imply it was plagued with issues, but I did run into them every now and then. Nothing I couldn’t ever resolve either but it’s still not something I’d recommend to a novice unless they are open to potentially breaking their system in a way that may be unknown to them.

        • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 days ago

          i was thankful for those issues; it taught me A LOT about how Linux worked back then.