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   Josh Simmons (dotstdy@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 00:56:57 JST Josh Simmons

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   @d6 @mcc e.g. if you buy a new laptop you likely want to be running the latest or near the latest kernel just so it actually like, works. There's usually some number of small functionality enablement that needs to happen. Then if you want to run new software (like e.g. steam games) you need graphics drivers that aren't from the middle ages. And any applications you want to use, you likely want the latest version of those too. (Debian stable has blender 3.4, for example, current upstream is 4.3)

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     Stefan Monnier (monnier@oldbytes.space)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 00:56:57 JST Stefan Monnier

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     @dotstdy @d6 @mcc On new hardware not (well) supported by Debian stable's kernel, I usually run Debian stable with a more recent kernel (either from testing or hand-compiled)

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     Josh Simmons (dotstdy@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 00:56:58 JST Josh Simmons

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     @d6 @mcc *so long as all your hardware is old enough that geriatric software will actually run on it, and so long as your software is all old enough to be happy running on geriatric platform software. If that's not the case then you get flipped around and a stable distro is the opposite of stable.