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I use it on a couple devices. It’s more stable than arch and certainly easier to use. It can sometimes be a bit finicky with third party repos. However Debian testing isn’t guaranteed to be stable, so things may break on your system. That being said I really haven’t had many problems.
There are a couple weeks/months before a new version is released where testing stops getting feature updates, as the packages are frozen.
thanks for the answer!
and do I need to do something, or I can just do nothing at all? will it still think to be Debian 12 or will it automatically switch to 13?
It should automatically switch to the next version, as the “testing” keyword gets passed down between versions. I’m not sure though
thanks!