They say debian is free and has its promise, but Arch has like 2-4 maintainers?

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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Depends a bit on what you want to do.

Debian stable tends to have rather old versions of everything, but Debian testing (currently codename Forky) is really nice. I installed it a few months ago on my ThinkPad, and it's running beautifully.

I'm not in it for the uptime, so I shut down whenever I'm done and when I shut down, I do an update / upgrade, and there's always something being upgraded. I've had zero issues with stability or performance.

I have no experience with Arch, so I can't really compare.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Debian Testing doesn't get timely security updates.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Oh, I didn't realise that! Apparently security updates come to unstable and stable before they go to testing.

    I kind of like having up to date packages. Now I'm not sure whether I should rather switch to Sid, or watch the vulnerable source package list.

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