Thank you for your response, Ben, > What response did you get to the bug reports you filed from the problems you > encountered?
One example includes an X regression that caused it to wait upwards of 8 minutes searching for my laptop's touchscreen. The bug was caused by a typo where, instead of waiting 250 milliseconds to detect a serial device, it waits 250 seconds. To my knowledge, it's still broken in testing and I've worked around it by uninstalling the xserver-xorg-input-wacom driver (#863532). Then there are the issues with the upgrade to KDE 5, which aren't Debian's fault but still make KDE pretty unstable. A lot of features have been removed and other things just plain don't work. These are all upstream bugs that I've tried to report. Ironically, both reportbug and reportbug-ng are broken on my system! The former's GTK interface doesn't load and the latter URL-safe encodes all the text (#594217), so all you get is a bunch of gibberish and a rejection from the BTS. I also ran into an issue where live-boot and/or live-config suddenly prevented my system from booting (I make images for USB installs), despite https://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ saying that there's no harm to installing them. I just uninstalled them and continued on.