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You probably have your reason to run Debian testing but I read somewhere that testing is somehow a bad idea as desktop environment !
If somehing is stuck and being updated in sid, and bugs are still happening, you could be stuck for month without the correct update in testing.
Sorry if it's not clear, but I read it somewhere in the official debian documentation.
My desktop has been Debian testing since Jessie. I was inconvenienced a total of 2 times where something broke and made an app unuseable. My KDE menu was fixed within a day and my torrenting app took longer to fix, but I was able to apply a one line fix in the meantime with help from our awesome community.
I know it's named "testing", but I'd bet it would be very stable for most people's use cases and trade off is absolutely worth it if people would give it a try.
Do you consider testing a better choice than sid for desktop/gaming environment?
I'm really not sure which one I should use. I only have experience with bare bone debian stable as server, I'm trying to find the best choice when switching from windaube to debian :)
Thanks for your insights and personal experiences !
Sorry for the late reply. Yes, I think it's better for desktop. Stable is truly targetted for servers and desktop users will only be mildy inconvenienced once in a blue moon.
Thanks :))))