On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 09:32:25AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 15:41:35 +0100 > Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > [snip] > > > > > 3 - Piece of string type question - what versions to install? On the > > backup system stable is obvious. The other two systems are my desktop > > which is also used as my mail server (running postfix) and my laptop. > > I think I'll go for testing on the laptop but I'm not sure whether > > stable or testing would be best for the desktop. I tended to keep my > > desktop running Ubuntu LTS releases, would I get about the same 'feel' > > with Debian stable? > > Unless you have a specific reason to use testing, I suggest stable on > all your machines. Stable is much closer to the LTS releases than > testing. > Yes, I think maybe that's the way I should go, at least initially.
> But since you didn't say what your complaints about xubuntu are, I > can't give you any guidance on whether you will get away from them with > Debian. On stable, XFCE is at version 4.18. Testing is currently at > 4.18 also. > My main complaint is snap, which I have removed but I suspect it's going to become steadily more difficult to run Ubuntu without snap. My only need for 'latest' versions tends to be for a very few things where keeping different systems in step is important. Some are in PPAs (e.g. syncthing) so I get the same version on all my systems that way. The other one I can think of at the moment is GnuCash which I run on two systems with the same database so it has to be at the same version on both. So I think it may well be that Debian stable will do all I need, with, maybe some backports (I'll have to look into how they work). Thank you. -- Chris Green
