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Debian Unstable vs Mint ? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months 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

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