> Is there a branch that keeps relatively recent versions of packages and is reasonably usable as a daily driver?
For workstations where I usually want new packages I use unstable. It's not really "unstable" (IIRC Ubuntu is based on it) and has always up to date packages and bug fixes in short time. An unstable installation didn't break for me once in the last 4 years.
The problem with testing is that bugs need too long to get fixed (weeks to months). It's the testing environment for the next stable release so it doesn't really change too often and the packages aren't really the newest versions.
For servers I'm driving stable because I'm rather conservative with servers.
For workstations where I usually want new packages I use unstable. It's not really "unstable" (IIRC Ubuntu is based on it) and has always up to date packages and bug fixes in short time. An unstable installation didn't break for me once in the last 4 years.
The problem with testing is that bugs need too long to get fixed (weeks to months). It's the testing environment for the next stable release so it doesn't really change too often and the packages aren't really the newest versions.
For servers I'm driving stable because I'm rather conservative with servers.