Testing is honestly not a good option for daily use, the packages can sit with open CVEs for quite a long time. This is a quirk of Testing, not a dig on Debian. I use Stable on servers and laptops, Sid/Unstable on my desktop. Sid has fast updates and latest packages, but it has the side effect of things breaking spectacularly, example when I was using the RT kernel and X became incompatible with it, took me a couple of hours to figure it out. Testing is more of a “we’ll get to it later” distribution, just be careful. -nick On Sat, Dec 27, 2025 at 02:17 William Park via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
(Double posted, so reply to your list)
I've been looking for a distro with recent KDE and recent kerne*l*. So, the benchmark was *Kubuntu* 25.10 (v6.4 KDE, v6.17 kernel).
1. Started with *Mint* + "apt install kde-full". Result was comparable to Kubuntu LTS, ie. v5.27 KDE, v6.14 kernel. Makes sense, since Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS.
2. Then, tried *LMDE* + "apt install kde-full". I was surprised to get a rather recent v6.3 KDE with v6.12 kernel. I was expecting an old KDE, even older than Mint version.
3. So, decided to try *Debian* *testing* + KDE. I got v6.5.4 KDE (latest) and v6.17.12 kernel. Not bad.
Right now, *Debian testing* is compiling v6.12.62 and v6.18.1 kernels for Raspberry Pi Zero 2W. We'll see how it goes.
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