• Underfreyja@lemmy.ca
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    Exactly, plus you can decide if you want to be on a stable distro versus one where you get to test new features / get all the updates at the cost of stability.

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      Your distro can also decide what version to be on for each package. Slackware regularly rolls back a broken package until upstream fixes it.

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      That’s a good point. Beta users save a lot, I mean a lot, of headaches for stable users. I am not sure if Windows even does beta and alpha versions anymore.

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        They have the Windows Insider program, which is basically beta testing - and maybe sometimes alpha testing these days.

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          I should really keep up with Windows news even if I don’t use it.

          Thank you for the info and thank you for posting.