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[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Don't know about using a Debian Testing base, just because the word "testing" does not inspire confidence.

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Having btrfs+snapper set up by default sounds good. I wish Debian-based distros in general would finally make a move there. It's a bit of a meme that folks laud Debian for its stability, but you can easily break it with one wrong command.

And who knows, maybe TuxedoOS adopting it can serve as a proof of concept and get Debian itself to adopt btrfs sooner.

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

laud Debian for its stability, but you can easily break it with one wrong command.

Well because that's not the stability release schedules are talking about

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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.

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