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Yea, I get that. Stable is from the developer POV, my expectation though was that I could at least finish the install process without running into an issue. I didn't expect that a built in driver would decide to just black screen and the official driver to just not work period(Linux Mint), or that the installer wouldn't be smart enough to properly configure the X server to allow for a login(Debian 12).
I somewhat expected it of Mint, but for Debian 12 I was pretty surprised to see it. You would think something that was good enough to reach a point where they did a package freeze would be able to at least reach a desktop before showing signs of an issue. But I guess considering that the installer itself crashes if you try to manually partition a server, and then decide to go back in and set up luks in the installer, I shouldn't be too surprised.
Being said, ~~I have not heard of~~ Did not know that PikaOs it was a Debian derivative, I might actually look into that one then. (and yes before you ask it is exclusively because it contains "Pika" so I think it would be funny to try it ๐)
edit: I realized after seeing the logo I had heard of it, just didn't know it was based off debian.
I just put my desktop on pika, its nice. Maybe a little better performance than stock Debian in games, but i could be imagining things.
I like the bird sounds it uses as system sounds. Drives my dog crazy looking for whats making tge sound.
Haha I just noticed your name, that's a funny coincidence. But yeah I'm a big fan of Debian in general. The problem, as you noticed, is often it doesn't have great support for the latest hardware. On the other hand, it often has great support for older hardware, and PikaOS refuses to install at all on some of my older, less capable systems, so those are running Debian right now. So it's kind of a "right tool for the job" sort of situation. They have their purposes, it's definitely not one-size-fits-all.