Thought I’d create a distinct thread from the previous one asking about daily use, because I really do want to hear more on people’s pain points. Great to know people are generally sounding pretty positive in those posts who recently switched, but want to know your difficulties as well! This way old and new users can share their thoughts, hopefully to inspire a respectful discussion.


I run firefox nightly from my home directory. It upgrades just about daily. I generally don’t suggest running stuff outside the package manager, but this use has never caused me issues. For years.
If you aren’t running a server, I recommend changing to testing/unstable. Unstable doesn’t mean unstable->it will crash a lot, it means the packages will be updated. More like a rolling release, aside from the window of time right before stable gets updated.