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> Debian is the best.

I just really wish they had an answer to Ubuntu's HWE stack[1] for mid-Stable hardware updates :(

(Backports don't count due to their ad-hoc & unsupported nature)

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack

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You install Debian Testing, but you configure your sources.list with the actual distro name (today: bullseye) instead of testing. Some of the installer media even do that for you: https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2020/2020.... Just keep updating your distro and when it gets released you will be on Debian Stable.

What's wrong with using test in this context? If I'm running LTS, which for me is server only, I don't want or need newer kernel or x updates. Additionally, if I'm utilizing a DE I generally don't want LTS.

  sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
  sed -i 's/buster/testing/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
  sudo apt dist-upgrade

Getting security updates from unstable (not required):

1. Pin unstable lower than testing.

2. Configure apt/debsecan as outlined here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725934

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