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How is testing? (programming.dev)

submitted 8 months ago by tastysnacks@programming.dev to c/debian@lemmy.ml

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I usually switch to testing about 1 year after the release of stable. We're about the 9 month mark and I'm getting anxious. Any major issues running testing? This is for my main desktop.

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[–] h3ndrik@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I've been running testing for quite some time. Runs well. Sometimes some smaller hiccups during the freezes. They don't promise you'll get security patches on time (with anything but stable). Otherwise nice rolling distro. I'm occasionally mixing in packages from unstable.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

I would say testing is okay - I have used the same install on my desktop continuously since early 2022. It's the same as usual - some packages might disappear during transitions and then reappear, like FreeCAD. When that happens, I just use the Flatpak. I think the only major issue I've run into with current testing was some of my systems got borked during the time_t64 transition and I had to chroot in and fix them, but that got sorted out months ago and is probably the only huge issue I can think of.