On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 07:19:14AM -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > On 8/28/21 5:35 PM, Yoann LE BARS wrote: > > Hello everybody out there! > > > > On 2021/08/29 at 02:26 am, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > That said, Dan's advice is quite solid: have your mixed environment in a > > > VM, chroot, or other virtual environment. When it gets into an unusable > > > state (it very likely will at some point, especially as testing further > > > diverges from stable), you can wipe it clean and start over. > > So, here is the way I get it: use Debian stable + backports as the > > system basis. > Stability is really important for me. > I am more conservative and I Don't use Backports*. Stable Only. > > my experimenting is done on other machines or separate systems (multi-boot) >
Echoing this: if stability is important: use stable - currently Debian 11. If everything works, fine. Exceptionally: if your machine is too new for stable, then you might need a backports kernel or similar. If you want to do ANYTHING else: do it on a separate machine / in a VM. That way - you have "vanilla" stable which is easily debugged. You have stable+backports in a VM [unless you have the case where you need backported kernel/firmware for basic booting] and you have anything else in a separate VM, maybe. Don't make a FrankenDebian unless you absolutely must and you're sure what you've done to get there and can undo changes. All the very best, as ever, Andy Cater