> I've been running Debian Testing for 15 years now with nary a problem
I ran Linux on the desktop for 19 years, through years-long stretches of Slackware, RedHat, SuSE, Gentoo, and Ubuntu. Obviously, I was (and still am) a huge fan, but if you've managed 15 years of Linux on the desktop with "nary a problem," you have had the most unbelievable luck of any human on the planet, and should start buying lottery tickets.
After running Gentoo for several years, and switching to Ubuntu, I was amazed at how much time I was saving not dealing with portage. Fair enough. I mean, I was asking for it by using a source distro, but I had that same sigh of relief when I finally bought a Mac, and realized that I was still doing a lot of maintenance to keep Ubuntu happy, even though it was (obviously) a huge improvement over Gentoo. I just couldn't see it until it was gone.
I ran Linux on the desktop for 19 years, through years-long stretches of Slackware, RedHat, SuSE, Gentoo, and Ubuntu. Obviously, I was (and still am) a huge fan, but if you've managed 15 years of Linux on the desktop with "nary a problem," you have had the most unbelievable luck of any human on the planet, and should start buying lottery tickets.
After running Gentoo for several years, and switching to Ubuntu, I was amazed at how much time I was saving not dealing with portage. Fair enough. I mean, I was asking for it by using a source distro, but I had that same sigh of relief when I finally bought a Mac, and realized that I was still doing a lot of maintenance to keep Ubuntu happy, even though it was (obviously) a huge improvement over Gentoo. I just couldn't see it until it was gone.