I think the one of the biggest things for me about stable/LTS distros aside from dealing with "old, crusty stuff", is that said software is upgraded all at once every two or three years. Doing 5 or 10 minutes of work a month looking into changelogs for packages and adjusting settings and what not is much more managable than having everything change underneath you all at once, possibly by several major versions. Its almost a miracle that stable->stable upgrades even work.
Re:Why Use Debian Stable on the Desktop?
by cbcoutinho on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @10:59AM
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I totally agree, have been a happy Tumbleweed user for over a year now. Installation is a breeze compared to Arch.
Re:Why Use Debian Stable on the Desktop?
by nickik on Thursday January 04, 2018 @08:23PM
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How dare you say that installing Arch is not easy?????
Re:Why Use Debian Stable on the Desktop?
by cbcoutinho on Friday January 05, 2018 @10:00AM
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> compared to Arch
Have you ever tried to install Tumbleweed? I was comparing the two, not using absolutes.
For those who are to afraid to run Arch, consider openSUSE Tumbleweed. It is as up to date (or more so) as Arch Linux but they do a lot of automated testing, plus they do a lot of automatic snapshots so you can go back if needed (that is if you are willing to run Btrfs).