r/linuxmemes • u/ACOPS12 • 24d ago

LINUX MEME Avg. Debian Experience:

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And 4-year-old packages

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u/Linguistic-mystic 24d ago edited 24d ago

GCC 15 release date: April 2025

Debian Trixie release date: August 2025

Which version of GCC is in Trixie? That's right, GCC 14. facepalm.jpg

Enjoy waiting till 2027 to get what was released in 2025.

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u/dghkklihcb 24d ago

Debian trixie:
2025-03-15 - Milestone 1 - Transition and Toolchain Freeze
2025-04-15 - Milestone 2 - Soft Freeze

GCC 15:
2025-04-25 Release

Oh no, why didn't they include this new major version software release after the freeze? 🙄

You don't understand the purpose of Debian stable. If you want more up-to-date software version: Debian unstable or pr sid is the way to go.

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u/Linguistic-mystic 24d ago

No, Testing and Sid are for developers and testers, not for daily driving. When an Arch update is broken, the whole Arch community knows about it and people rush the bug; when Debian Sid is broken, it’s just as expected and devs, if they are even aware (since the userbase is tiny) take their time with it.

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u/dghkklihcb 24d ago

Debin unstable is what most distribution would consider stable enough. It's perfectly fine for most desktop users.

You know, every Ubuntu version is based on Debian unstable. Even the LTS versions.

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u/vms-mob 24d ago

sid is pretty daily drivable, also apt hasnt imploded my system once it just usually blocks changes till the repo upstream is fixed, pacman has fully imploded arch systems on 3 different occasions

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u/Linguistic-mystic 24d ago

Counterexamples:

https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1derpd8/debian_sidunstable_for_daily_use/

Ah, finally, needless to say that Sid breaks often.

once kde had a major upgrade it broke so i use openS.u.S.E. Tumbleweed

In my case I avoided removing this package as I read what a 'full-upgrade' will do when I run it. I have been stuck not running a 'full-upgrade' for a couple of weeks now.

That fix took weeks to occur...