Old is stability - Lemmy.World

For my use cases (audio, programming, engineering school, watching crap on FreeTube) I value stability and predictability over security and shiny new stuff. In the rare cases that things break, they break in ways that are already well-understood, so usually have workarounds or solutions.

In the few cases I do need something newer than the Debian repos provide, I just use Flatpaks or get an updated .deb from the devs of the particular software.

So yeah, zero rush for Plasma 6 for me. It looks nice, but I’ll just be chilling on Plasma 5 until it comes out.

There is a fine line between stable and outdated. Some debian pakages are like 2 years out of date. I just cant handle that on a desktop.

Flatpak, nix, guix, snap, appimage, distrobox, etc. You most certainly can handle that.

On my system half of the packages come from Debian repositories, and half from nix unstable.