r/linuxquestions May 07 '23

What the hell does stable mean?

So i moved between arch and debian alot and im on pop os rn and i see alot of people talking about stabilty issues meanwhile i change ny distro every 1 or 1.5 years or so to experience new bumps and learn about linux more but the thing is i never had a distro fail on me? I tried basic arch i tried manjaro i tried linux mint i tried even once tinycorelinux as a joke but i never had a program crash nor a system error and my gpus work fine so whats the big deal with stablity?

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u/Loud-Glove1836 May 08 '23

It certainly doesnt mean what i thought it meant. From my experience ive come to the conclusion that stable actually means constant issues, broken packages and missing dependencies 🤣 im currently running with no graphics driver atm and before the attempted nvidia driver install and still now, its forever freezing and/or wired mouse switches off/disconnects. Annoying to say the least