How "unstable" is Debian unstable?

[Frox]

Is the stability really as big of an issue as it's made out to be or is it just more of a warning to cover them if anything does go wrong?
I'm using my computer just as a home desktop but i still don't want it crashing all the time.

[Artimus]

I don't think you'll have to worry about it. Its just one of those cover your butt messages. Anyway, Sid(Unstable) works fine on my box.

[Kai99]

Hey Frox,

Unstable is as stable as any other distro running recent software. There may be some situations where apt-get may be confused with dependency problems with all of the new versions of packages changing so frequently.

Other than that it seems to be very stable for me.

Kai

[scott_R]

Just make sure you have a reasonably fast internet connection, cause things tend to change a lot quicker in unstable than in stable or testing.

[Frox]

Great, thanks alot! :)
I'll be checking it out now.