Devon, FWIW, I've used Debian Stable (https://debian.org) for >10 years. I trade off bleeding-edge software versions for stability.
I have used Debian Unstable (aka Sid). It is bleeding edge, but I don't recall having many problems with it, and those that did occur tended to get fixed quickly. Then again, that was perhaps 10+ years ago, and my memory of that is probably not too accurate. I explicitly don't use Debian Testing anymore. I tried it once and ran into the problem I had read about: - I encountered a bug (happened to be with grub, so booting became problematic IIRC). - Debian fixed it rather rapidly and put the fix into a 2-week(?) testing period in Sid. - It failed--more than once, IIRC, resetting the 2-week testing period each time. - After multiple weeks, I finally got a working grub. I can't promise they still have the same process. With Sid, I would have gotten a fix immediately. The first two or so would have failed, but the last one would have come my way without the two week wait. With Stable, I wouldn't have seen anything until the new, tested, working code was there. Have you seen https://distrowatch.com/? Bill On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 9:53 AM Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi - does anyone have a recommendation of a good flavor of Linux (includes > MacOS) or a warning about the same? > > I'm interested in trying out Shakti which is a new version of K but it's > not available on Windows. > > I mostly care about being able to run emacs which I assume is not a issue > for any *nix. > > Thanks, > > Devon > -- > > Devon McCormick, CFA > > Quantitative Consultant > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Bill Harris http://makingsense.facilitatedsystems.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
