Troy A. Johnson said:
> I want to know of the
> downsides I might not be aware of. Are there any?

I can think of two things that tend to bother people (other than dselect's
UI):

1)  "Debian is too far behind."  The stable distro isn't updated as often as
many people would like, but I've had extremely few problems with running
unstable (and those few were invariably fixed within a day), so this is a
non-issue for me.  And it's pretty easy to run a mix of versions if you want
to stick with stable, but need a few things that are only present in
unstable.

2)  "Too many things aren't available as debs."  Yes, it's true - for
whatever reason, Red Hat is the 'default' Linux flavor, so RPMs are a lot
easier to find than debs.  That's why someone invented alien.

(As you may have guessed, I consider these 'problems' to sit somewhere
between 'spurious' and 'insignificant' on the severity scale.)

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