Despite some people insisting on using it that way sid is really more of a staging area for testing than an actual distro where things are designed to avoid breakage.
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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yep I agree 100% i don't mind when it breaks it's what I signed up for and I like to file bug reports to help with testing before it makes it into testing.
Did apt-listbugs show any warnings? Or was this a totally unexpected breakage?
-- fellow sid enjoyer
nope didn't flag any in apt-listchanges ether. kwin-wayland has been giving me trouble for a bit but X11 has been fine. my plan is to try again this weekend and do some troubleshooting and file some bug reports. The only thing different was it was just a lot of packages today (244) that want to update.
i normally Yolo update whenever since my system is backed up six ways from Sunday. i run everything and i mean everything on raid 0. I'm liked begging for my system to fail but since I have my whole system backed up to a SAN volume mounted via iSCSI. everything is backed up every 3 hours and most important documents go directly to the NAS and replicated to another NAS elsewhere.
Now it is bad time for sid. new stable just released and devs going nuts. testing is bad ATM, sid should be even worst.
yep i love this time in the cycle. So many updates after the slow down. it's fun to figure out what's broken and to figure out a workaround and report it. it's like solving a good mystery to me.