On 10/10/24 11:45, Chris Green wrote:
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:
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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.
I went from xubuntu 22.04 unsnapped to debian 12 XFCE and also run
gnucash - I am very pleased to be able to find no snapping with a mostly
familiar os.
