On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 12:03 PM, RavenLX <rave...@sitesplace.net> wrote: > My system is used for work (I work from home exclusively) and stuff I do > sometimes can be mission-critical in that if I'm notified, I might have to > go and do some work right away on something important. Customers would be > relying on my ability to fix things. So, I really can't afford something to > go down on my machine. This is why I have a spare laptop just in case my > "main" laptop has a problem. They are both set up identical and data files > are backed up very frequently so all I need to do is get the backups onto > the spare laptop and be good to go within minutes. > > Stability, in my case, is a must. However, I do like to have newer features > as well.
Use stable. When stability is important, that is the correct distribution to use. You might also like http://kamarajukusumanchi.github.io/choosing_debian_distribution/choosing_debian_distribution.html which contains a bunch of FAQs that come up in choosing the right distribution. It has not been updated in a while (so the names of stable, testing are different) but the content should still be relevant. hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog