I see testing as a better fit for general-purpose desktop setups, stable is a bit too conservative in that regard.

That is true, at least for laptops that came to market after the respective Debian release.

You can however get all stability of a released version with newer packages if you use stable+backports. This would give you a stable system, and allow you to upgrade selected packages to newer versions. This can be tedious, so running testing is also possible.

And well, overall, you can also install other distributions that are bleeding-edge (Arch based?). That's why I like about the distro ecosystem :)

	▲	giancarlostoro 8 days ago \| parent [-]
		If you want Arch that's easy to setup, and manage, try EndeavourOS. Its the first time I've tried Arch and stuck with it. I tried Manjaro but it was a nightmare for me, I had just installed it and ran an update command, and it broke everything. I think it was my lack of understanding Pacman. I have to wonder if people just break Arch mostly because of Pacman nuances. Protip: don't use Pacman directly, just use 'yay' which comes with EndeavourOS. Yay is an interface to Pacman, now while it may sound silly, its totally worth its salt. I'm probably still on Endeavour because of yay. In order to update your system just type 'yay' into a terminal and it does the work prompting you for confirmation. If you want to install anything its as simple as 'yay packagename' and then it gives you options, including from the User repos (AUR) which are like Ubuntu's PPAs. I spent probably 15 years on Debian / Ubuntu (though it mostly became Ubuntu even for servers, I got too used to Ubuntu over the years). I installed Arch this past year because I wanted more up to date packages, I didnt want bleeding edge, but it hasn't been so much bleeding so I'm okay with it. I update every few days, or when Discord decides to tell me to download the DEB package or it wont open.