On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 16:19:06 +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > See: > > https://wiki.debian.org/HowToUpgradeKernel > > for hot to get your kernel from "experimental".
That's horrifying. A much safer choice would be to use trixie-backports. See <https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/> for that. Backported packages are built from "testing" branch sources, so they've at least theoretically had *some* amount of testing by the time you can get them (they have to satisfy the requirements to be migrated from the "unstable" branch to the "testing" branch). The "experimental" branch, on the other hand, is simply "something the maintainer uploaded today, but doesn't believe is ready for unstable yet". The same security caveats apply to both. They're both "use at your own risk", not supported by the security team, and so on. Experimental has the additional caveat of "may not work at all".
