Debian stable tends to have rather old versions of everything, but Debian testing (currently codename Forky) is really nice. I installed it a few months ago on my ThinkPad, and it’s running beautifully.
I’m not in it for the uptime, so I shut down whenever I’m done and when I shut down, I do an update / upgrade, and there’s always something being upgraded. I’ve had zero issues with stability or performance.
I have no experience with Arch, so I can’t really compare.
Depends a bit on what you want to do.
Debian stable tends to have rather old versions of everything, but Debian testing (currently codename Forky) is really nice. I installed it a few months ago on my ThinkPad, and it’s running beautifully.
I’m not in it for the uptime, so I shut down whenever I’m done and when I shut down, I do an update / upgrade, and there’s always something being upgraded. I’ve had zero issues with stability or performance.
I have no experience with Arch, so I can’t really compare.
Debian Testing doesn’t get timely security updates.
Oh, I didn’t realise that! Apparently security updates come to unstable and stable before they go to testing.
I kind of like having up to date packages. Now I’m not sure whether I should rather switch to Sid, or watch the vulnerable source package list.