On 7/23/24 09:45, 타토카 wrote:
Does anyone here use Debian Sid for professional work and programming?
I do.
Are you happy with this?
I am.
I just want to know your opinions about this experience.
I have several old kernels and respective initrds on my machine and I have another machine running Debian testing (and of course a daily backup of my data). So in case an upgrade makes my workstation unusable and I don't have the time right then I can use the other machine. I'm running Debian unstable since more than five years now mainly to help with testing and the occasional bug report. In these five years it happened once or twice that after an upgrade I couldn't use my machine anymore. It took me a couple of hours or so to get it working again. I have ~40 years experience with *nix, ~30 years with Linux and ~20 years with Debian. I've also built my own distributions (using Yocto). So I generally know what to do if something fails. I run a daily apt update/upgrade, but never a dist-upgrade (I have pinned packages). So regularly apt upgrade doesn't upgrade some packages that I think it should, and normally I just wait until the Debian developers have sorted it out. Occasionally it happens that a package isn't upgraded for weeks and I decide to look after it, which takes some time. Sometimes the packages that aren't upgraded accumulate (e.g. during the t64 transition I had 300+ packages not upgraded) and when I have the time I try to sort it out it may take longer than half a day. And as I'm still not an expert with dpkg and apt I sometimes ask questions here and generally get helpful answers. So yes, I'm still happy with running Debian unstable. I hope this helps you to decide if unstable is something for you. Detlef
