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> He recommends testing for non-server use cases, desktops for example. ""I believe it is as stable as any other rolling release"" due to all of the checks and procedures that the distribution has put in place.

AFAIK testing is worse than both unstable and stable regarding timely security fixes. In unstable you get a timely fix from upstream, in stable you get a fix by the security team.

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> In unstable you get a timely fix from upstream, in stable you get a fix by the security team.

For anything that is serious enough, you will get a security fix straight away for both unstable and testing (through the testing-security repository).

For things that are not really that important, yes, you will get the fix later.

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