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I ll give you old but not at all unstable, wonder what instability have you found in LTS.
I think he meant: Stable is freaking old. Unstable has a lot of limitations.
Indeed, I edited my comment to better convey my point. Thanks for being so good at reading comprehension.
Pretty sure the whole statement is
I don't think they're saying Debian LTS is unstable.
Exactly what my bad wording meant to say. Thank you for your extraordinary reading comprehension.
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.
A lot of people (incorrectly) equate "stable" with "bug-free". So conversely, having bugs would be "unstable".
It's more stable to be on the latest versions than to carry around bugs and issues that were solved 5 years ago.