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Some mix of wrong and right, the exact proportions of which I'll leave as an exercise to the reader.

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[–] reddit_sux 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Stable is freaking old and unstable.

I ll give you old but not at all unstable, wonder what instability have you found in LTS.

[–] gilbert31 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think he meant: Stable is freaking old. Unstable has a lot of limitations.

[–] warmaster 2 points 2 years ago

Indeed, I edited my comment to better convey my point. Thanks for being so good at reading comprehension.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Pretty sure the whole statement is

Stable is freaking old, and unstable has lots of limitations

I don't think they're saying Debian LTS is unstable.

[–] warmaster 2 points 2 years ago

Exactly what my bad wording meant to say. Thank you for your extraordinary reading comprehension.

[–] warmaster 1 points 2 years ago

My bad. I meant the Stable branch is old, which is good for lots of use cases, but not mine. And the Unstable branch which Docker for example, doesn't support. I edited my original comment to better represent what I'm trying to say.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

A lot of people (incorrectly) equate "stable" with "bug-free". So conversely, having bugs would be "unstable".

[–] ghariksforge 1 points 2 years ago

It's more stable to be on the latest versions than to carry around bugs and issues that were solved 5 years ago.