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Don't you get the same problem with upgrades with Debian? As for Wayland, seeing the progress over the last 17 years, I estimate it will be ready for regular use sometime during the 41st millennium.

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With debian, is you develop on stable, you only need to do the upgrade song and dance every year and a half or so and upgrades rarely break anything. If you develop on unstable, you can use the snapshot archive to either upgrade 6 months at a time or move back to the next stable and then walk through stable releases.

> Don't you get the same problem with upgrades with Debian?

I don't think you have to do some manual configuration to upgrade your distribution because it is a couple years old and current scripts don't support that (like going from a 22.10 to 24.04 is a fun game).

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