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What is your preferred daily driver distribution?

Considering switching away from Fedora and to another distribution. Does anyone have any suggestions for distributions I should consider?

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  • I'm using debian.

    • Seconded

    • I live on the more unstable side, I like Debian Unstable/Sid. I also recommend Siduction as it's based on Debian Unstable.

      • I've been actually trying Debian Testing for past few weeks.

        • Debian not recommends testing for everyday using. You definetely have to look at the site. Afaik it is basically a bad version of unstable that gets slow updates and it is only for testing purposes.

          • Yes, this is correct. The way Testing works, it is very possible (indeed, likely) that you could be stuck with a security vulnerability for weeks. You should use either stable or unstable.

            • Can unstable be used as a daily driver?

              • Yes, as long as you pay attention to what packages are being added and removed when you perform an update. Once in a great while, there have been instances of buggy packages mass-removing other packages due to a bug.

                That said, Debian-based distros like Ubuntu usually base their stable releases on unstable. Unstable doesn't refer to software stability. Rather, it refers to the idea that the system-level packages could change throughout the development cycle.

                Security updates come to unstable through normal package updates, which testing doesn't get until everything makes it through a probationary period with no "serious" bugs filed and no dependency issues. And if any package that the package needing the security patch depends on also has a serious bug filed, the process could take even longer.

          • Packages from debian unstable trickle down to testing in 8-10 days usually if all the other criteria are met. But I have also heard that important security updates go straight from unstable to stable and then come to testing at a later time. When is that later date I have no idea.

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