I exclusively use Debian stable. I ran unstable for a while but in general I never felt like it gave me anything I needed. I also do not recommend running unstable unless you're very familiar with Debian and are easily able to work out issues. They didn't come up often, but they did come up.
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i last used unstable back in 2007 and it wasn't that much different that stable; has it gotten worse?
Not at all. I didn't mean to imply it was plagued with issues, but I did run into them every now and then. Nothing I couldn't ever resolve either but it's still not something I'd recommend to a novice unless they are open to potentially breaking their system in a way that may be unknown to them.
Mint is based on Ubuntu. It's not strictly tied to any Debian release channel?! There's LMDE as well. That's based on stable.
why is mint recommended and debian is called kernel-showcase "only graddaddy not really a usable distro"
Mint and Mint LMDE are using Pipewire by default, how are you using pulseaudio?
i didnt know thanks