Often that relies heavily on specific applications and specific feature updates rather than a blanket "shiny vs stable" mindset.
Sometimes also you have an application that NEEDS to be bleeding edge due to bugfixes never making it into security updates nvm needed features being kept back for years.
Other times you have an application that actually is unstable in the stable branch staying there for years because it's simply older than later releases branded as unstable.
Age and stability is not always the same thing. And I keep being reminded of a truly stupid Audacity bug that even in Ubuntu probably still isnt fixed in the previous base where all exports automatically had aaif added to it I think it was. Yes it's stable, great.... annoyingly almost semi-unusable too.
Another example is KDE.... it often has known bugs fixed in later releases that are perfectly stable in comparison to the version in the stable branch but are stuck in the unstable branch because there is not anything newer to replace it in unstable. Especially true given that KDE in any version due to feature creep is not particularly stable.... but much more stable than it once was.
It just all can get so silly and create extra unnecessary legwork to function. A lot of the time due to the scope the Debian folks just do not have the resources to sanely test everything so they rely on excuses instead and simply declaring what is stable and unstable. People tell themselves all sorts of fairy tales, in the end it's really all about practicality rather than safety.
Debian (and by extension, MX) is often called too old. What is your response to this?
Re: Debian (and by extension, MX) is often called too old. What is your response to this?
Damn! I knew there was something so beautifully attractive about linuxrambo919 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 17, 2022 9:29 am ... abridged
It just all can get so silly and create extra unnecessary legwork to function. A lot of the time due to the scope the Debian folks just do not have the resources to sanely test everything so they rely on excuses instead and simply declaring what is stable and unstable. People tell themselves all sorts of fairy tales, in the end it's really all about practicality rather than safety.
