Hi all,

I’m currently a happy Fedora user, but I’m attracted to the Debian world because of the sane choices Debian has mostly always taken. It’s a phenomenal distro, with a lot of support (both internla and from 3rd parties), and that follows some of the principles I care about. It has a long support period, it’s less opinionated than other distros, has a huge ecosystem and it’s community-run. Also, it’s an excellent distro for almost all use-cases: IoT, Server and Workstation.

I love Fedora, but it’s not exactly an LTS release, so I have to jump ship to CentOS whenever I need something more stable. Not that I dislike that heavily, though, but I’d like to try the Debian world.

I am not opting for Ubuntu because the snapization of the distro, which is becoming more dependent on snaps as time passes. I like some stuff about PopOS, but some other stuff I don’t. If I were to choose vanilla Debian, which one should I pick to be the most similar to Fedora?

  • Stable
  • Testing
  • Unstable (Sid)

I’ve read that Stable = CentOS, Testing = Fedora, Unstable = Rawhide/Arch. However, during the freeze period, neither Testing nor Unstable will actually behave like that at all. How long is that freeze period and how much of a big deal is it?

  • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Freeze is a fairly exceptional time unless something goes wrong; most of the the time it’s:

    • Stable if you’re running a server, something boring and important where security is paramount and it’s okay for the software to be kind of old
    • Testing for daily use (personal machines etc)
    • Unstable / sid is also fine for daily use most of the time, although once in a blue moon something important might break. It mostly behaves like testing; the only reason you would choose unstable is if you’re actively developing for Debian or else if it’s so important to you to have extremely up-to-date software that you can accept some brokenness.

    I recommend testing for normal machines and stable for servers.