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would you recommend debian testing for a daily driver?
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I've been using it for 5 years on laptop and desktop and I've had very few issues since then. Imo it offers the best trade-off between up to date packages (and availability of packages and repos), rolling release and stability. I don't see any reason to switch distros anytime soon.
More details: I'm using xfce and I've installed firefox from the unstable branch (via apt pinning) because I wanted it to be more bleeding edge.
thanks for the answer! I have installed it on a VM and noticed that only firefox-esr is present, which is a couple of versions behind. Why isn't a "normal" firefox package included? and also, does installing firefox from the unstable branch causes any problems to other packages, conflicts, etc, or is it completely safe?
That is standard in all of Debian, just get it as a flatpack.
Yes, that's why I installed it from unstable. The ESR version is an older version with added security patches. I'm not sure, why exactly they are doing it like that and I don't think it's a good idea. I'd say a browser should be as up to date as possible for both, bug fixes AND new features. But it worked flawlessly using the "unstable" firefox package. Another option would be the flatpak, but that's not that well integrated into the system - last time I tried that, the font rendering in the browser was awkward. I use some other flatpaks though, most notably gimp and inkskape which work really well and are very up to date that way.
i encountered the font rendering bug as well, it seemed to be caused by x11 font packages and simply removing those with
sudo apt remove xfonts-base xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpisolved the problem, here is a more detailed explanation