Fair, I’m always scared to upgrade to a new Debian release and the process is always painful. But that happens every couple years and I can take a week or two to look into it before doing it.
Every time I did pacman -Syu it was a Russian roulette. Most of the times everything was fine, but often enough there was a problem and something was broken and I had to spend a couple days figuring out what was the problem.
I’m always scared to upgrade to a new Debian release and the process is always painful.
At least in my personal experience this is one of the big triggers for distro hopping. Most of the people I know that stuck to one distro for years and years are on a rolling release.
I mostly run Debian on servers. I do not want a rolling release on a server, at all.
I don’t care how well they check their packages, I just want the thing to work. I do not care about new features, I just want it to work.
Fair, I’m always scared to upgrade to a new Debian release and the process is always painful. But that happens every couple years and I can take a week or two to look into it before doing it.
Every time I did pacman -Syu it was a Russian roulette. Most of the times everything was fine, but often enough there was a problem and something was broken and I had to spend a couple days figuring out what was the problem.
At least in my personal experience this is one of the big triggers for distro hopping. Most of the people I know that stuck to one distro for years and years are on a rolling release.
I’m only still on tumbleweed because I’m too lazy to reinstall…
That’s my point. A version upgrade having issues would have forced you to do it by now.
I mostly run Debian on servers. I do not want a rolling release on a server, at all. I don’t care how well they check their packages, I just want the thing to work. I do not care about new features, I just want it to work.
I always just rollback then wait until I feel like they might’ve pushed an update to fix it.