> Don't let the "unstable" tag fool you, stability is a relative term.
I don't see why people throw this around a lot, it really isn't. Most recent example I can remember is when Debian decided to remove NVIDIA drivers from Testing and you end up with a nonfunctional desktop [0].
In my experience, "testing" is a lot more unstable than "unstable" itself, at least when upgrading. I haven't had any major problems running Sid in the last four or five years.
I don't see why people throw this around a lot, it really isn't. Most recent example I can remember is when Debian decided to remove NVIDIA drivers from Testing and you end up with a nonfunctional desktop [0].
[0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=755020