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TUXEDO Computers is switching the base of TUXEDO OS from Ubuntu to Debian for greater stability and control.
(www.tuxedocomputers.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2026
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Well because that's not the stability release schedules are talking about
Yeah, but that's exactly the meme that I'm talking about.
It's always ambiguous what is meant by stability. And as soon as you complain about Debian actually breaking very easily, folks will readily tell you about the technicality that it just means it doesn't change very often.
It's not really ambiguous at all.
A stable distro is one that doesn't update packages except for security updates within the lifecycle of a release.
You can install debian 13 on release day in 2025 and when it gets deprecated in 2030 it will be functionally the same.
A byproduct of that is that apt updates are very unlikely to break anything.
None of that changes that you can run
sudo apt remove dpkgorrm -rf /ordd in=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1(this one might actually work).But for your average desktop users it means you don't boot up your laptop and have to learn how to use libreoffice 26's new UI on the day you need to finish an assignment.
Well, in hopes that you're not just trolling, maybe you'll believe a dictionary that "stable" is ambiguous in this context. Because this is one of the listed meanings:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stable#Adjective
It also lists your meaning. I'm not saying that you're wrong. I'm saying it's ambiguous, i.e. there's two meanings that could apply here.
Well, and personally, I do feel like more people will interpret "stable" to mean bug-free here, because Debian is a piece of software to them.