like not doing anything, just a spare laptop in case i ever need one, what if i use it years after i installed debian on it?? i would have to update like 300 packages and would take a lot??

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    15 hours ago

    My record is 4 years without update. I had to upgrade every version instead of jumping directly to the latest because I read this is how it is done.

    This worked for Debian flawlessly. Another Laptop with Arch Linux died after updating a 2 years old system.

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      Yeah, but it’s a well known, well hidden fact, that Arch users are the beta testers of packages before real distros includes them…

      We don’t actually use Arch, it’s a testing environment.

      But we need those testers you know… So…

      GO ARCH GO best distro evar!!

      Hehe…

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        Hypothetically, as long as you did your own feature freeze and security patching (and testing, and testing, and testing), you could use Arch in production.
        Should you?

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        Beta Testing Weenie cough I mean Best Tech Wizard