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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.
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I see I see, thank you for you quick reply. This tempts me even more to use sid, hmm.
This is a different question from the original post, but do you happen to know what to do when listbugs warns me that a package has bugs? I suppose almost all packages have some bugs to some degree. Should I just avoid them on Sid? Or should I check how bad the bug is (if it belongs to a serious category) and decide whether to update it?
I say the solution is one step earlier. Backups and snapshots.
Use BTRFS or ZFS filesystem on your install and use snapshots to be able to rollback if things go bad.
Here's an example on how to set up BTRFS with automatic snapshots:
https://github.com/david-cortes/snapper-in-debian-guide
For backups Borg is popular:
https://github.com/borgbackup/borg