Mason Pines<p>I've been on <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>debian</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/trixie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trixie</span></a> for a few months now, ahead of the official stable release to test, and then on release, I did a clean install to ensure things all worked as expected.</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/debian13" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>debian13</span></a> is most certainly not as stable as <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/debian12" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>debian12</span></a> was.</p><p>There are some gaps in some used software which dropped out of <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/trixie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trixie</span></a> before release. There are a few intermittent segfaults with <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>xfce</span></a>, notably with <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/thunar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thunar</span></a> when working with lots of file deletes in relatively quick fashion.</p><p>If I am going to have to accept some stability issues, then that defeats the whole point of being on the stable release.</p><p>Given it is rare for <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>debian</span></a> to update core components within the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/stable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stable</span></a> release, even with known issues with upstream fixes, it is perhaps time to think whether I need to give this release a miss.</p><p>I could revert to <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/bookworm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookworm</span></a>, but that seems wrong, as security support will be withdrawn in a year. So perhaps I need to reconsider <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/arch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arch</span></a> but with <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/lts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lts</span></a> kernel to achieve the stability I'm seeking?</p>