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Re:Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released by claudius on Sunday May 05, 2013 @03:54AM (#5657779)
My mum is quite happy with Debian stable on her desktop, and I don’t plan to switch from Wheezy to Jessie on my laptop for a while either. What’s wrong with stable on desktops?
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Re:Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released by keithpeter on Sunday May 05, 2013 @05:36AM (#5657941)
Nothing if the software versions available are adequate for your use. Enjoy.

I've been using CentOS 5.9 on a desktop quite happily, I just compiled R from source to get a more recent version. Worth mentioning that Iceweasel (aka Firefox) was on the ESR channel so getting updates fairly regularly.

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Re:Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released by shmerl on Sunday May 05, 2013 @05:02AM (#5657892)
Software is updated too slowly, which is not the best option.
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Re:Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released by claudius on Sunday May 05, 2013 @05:08AM (#5657907)
On the other hand, software is updated slowly and you don’t have to relearn stuff every six months.
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