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I'm still running rx570, so I'm no real help, but +1 for using debian testing, been daily driving it for years on my gaming desktop. stable for server's and hardware that isn't booted up daily.
Why even use debian at that point?
Half of all of my packages are from nix unstable, but the system itself is still debian stable. That means I've got the bleeding edge user packages, but my system always boots. Casuals can use flatpak instead.
The only downside is for bleeding edge hardware, but again, why use debian at that point.
Because I've been using an apt-get based distro since the late 90's, Because I work in IT, Because I don't like rice/hours of config/features. Yawning chasm of difference between always boots and always boots and dive right into work/game/browsing/whatev's