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Debian 10 + Manjaro Kernel

My experience from running Debian 10 for a few days:

The kernel is rock stable. Debian 10 with xorg is rock stable. I don't run into the instability of Bullseye (as reported here and there on the forum).

Potential downside is graphics. I can live with it and patiently wait for Debian 11:

• Firefox: youtube can play videos up to 720p in native resolution and full-screen as well. The cpu load is reasonable low.
  
• Mplayer can play videos up to 720p in native resolution, only. The cpu load is reasonable low. Mplayer can't scale 720p video to full-screen. Other video players have one issue or another as well.
  

For a few days, I was running fbturbo, but it trashed my /var/log/Xorg.log file with 50MB/day of harmless messages. I did not see an improvement in video playback. Maybe there are some other subtile improvements elsewhere? Anyway, I'm back to the default xorg driver.

I've seen folks building mesa-git on Bullseye. In theory, it should be also possible on Debian 10. Last week, I tried building mesa-git but it had dependencies on wayland and so I stopped. Also, you don't have the convenience of apt-get automagically applying the latest bug and security fixes.

Debian 10 is good enough for me. You mileage may vary. Its biggest selling point is it simply works.