On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 5:05 AM, Elena ``of Valhalla'' <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Other hardware that may be problematic of course is new hardware which
> requires a new kernel, and if you're not already using testing (as
> mentioned in the other email), usually there is always one in backports.
>

This has not been my experience. My experience has been that if your
drivers are not in stable, dont bother with testing, or sid. My last
experience with this was when I had a new Core 2 Duo( E6300 CPU) system
that would not work 100%. As I recall no matter what I did, the SATA
controller would not work. Which was because the chipset was not fully
recognized by Debian. With that said, the hardware at that time would not
work with any distro.

However, I'm of the opinion now days that you buy the hardware for your
software. e.g. You buy hardware you know that works good for your given OS.

There also comes the point that sure, maybe I've a lot of experience with
Debian, and can figure out most problem related to it. But often,
especially the older I get. I just want whatever it is I'm using to work.
So if I need a desktop, for a system that may serve as a personal system,
or a workstation. I may just opt for something that "just works" "out of
the box".

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