On Saturday 09 September 2006 16:35, Ron Johnson wrote: > PD Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler wrote: > > On Saturday 09 September 2006 14:23, John Hasler wrote: > >> Chris writes: > >>> I sometimes seriously wonder if the people who claim to have no > >>> breakage in unstable use their systems for anything other than a > >>> console log in. > >> > >> I run Unstable on my workstation and have not had breakage for years. > >> However, I do not blindly upgrade every day. I follow debian-devel, > >> selectively upgrade individual packages, and occasionally do a general > >> upgrade when everything seems ok. > >> > >> I also use neither Gnome nor KDE. > >> -- > >> John Hasler > > > > Well, ok. Do you print, do you burn CDs, do you transfer photos from > > your camera? If you do, and on top of that in KDE (gasp!), you will have > > had breakage in the last six months on several occasions. > > Windows users get bots, worms and viruses and regularly have to > reinstall, Debian Unstable (desktop) users get occasional *partial* > breakage that is (usually) quickly resolved. And never have to > descend into RPM Hell. > > On the whole, I'll stick with Sid. >
Yeah, right. Windows users have to regularly reinstall. Whatever, it doesn't interest me in this context. I also never said not to use debian unstable, in fact I gave some suggestions of how I deal with the breakage that I have observed. I don't think the unstable/testing system is bad either, in fact I sometimes feel a bit guilty about never having submitted a bug report myself. But I'm realtively new to Linux and Debian and often can't tell which package is the problem. However, I can just say from my own experiences that if you want to run the latest software, and you *need* your computer to work, you should be prepared to deal with occasional breakage. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
