"I run Debian unstable on my laptop and most of my servers. I have one production web server that runs Debian stable instead, but mostly I can deal with any day-to-day glitches that come up using Debian unstable. I’ve used nothing else since 1996."I'm no debian expert, I'm fairly new to running straight debian but I am familiar with deb based distros. I've also run other more "advanced" distros in the past (I ran arch for about a year). I find wheezy is too out of date for my tastes, and I've been thinking about upgrading to sid.
My system has intel graphics and needs no proprietary driver so I don't have to worry about binary blobs breaking on me or anything.
How unstable does sid tend to be? Would I expect constant bugs/regressions, or just the more occasional ones? I have no problem running into the occasional bug and reporting them as long as it doesn't happen *too* often how stable it it compared to say, arch linux?
http://joey.hess.usesthis.com/
In other words:. Unstable is usually very stable.
Make a backup too and you are ready to go. Perhaps you will never need the backup. But if you need it restoring is done in 15 minutes. Install apt-listbugs too. Upgrade and dist-upgrade as often as possible. Get the head in a window manager and in the basic command line solutions if X is ever gone alltogether.
If folks in this thread are not able to doesn't mean it's hard, only that they are not able to. However their post count may be. Perhaps they are too busy with high-five?
If you want to then you can run it It's that easy. And if you consider yourself a pro and make a living with computing, then you should be able to run it.