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Not that I've noticed, but isn't that part of the territory? Like do latest Nvidia graphics drivers not sometimes break on Windows? My experience is that they certainly do. If you want perfect tried and tested stability, you have to sacrifice the ability to run the latest games using the latest features. This is a tradeoff you have to make. Which would be better? I'd run stable on servers, and latest on desktop, which is... what we're doing here, right?
Not all "latest" things are made equal.
There are distributions that are meant to be used in their bleeding edge form: Arch, Tumbleweed, you name it.
And then there are versions of distributions that are meant specifically for development and testing, like Debian sid.
If a new update breaks Arch in some way, everyone rushes to make a fix. If something breaks in sid...well, that's normal part of its operation.
You should absolutely be expecting critical issues on sid and no one would necessarily rush to fix them. It's not meant to actually be used like normal.
In my experience PikaOS devs fix any critical issues before they get to me. I have auto-updates on and haven't seen a serious problem in the year+ I've been using it on multiple machines, YMMV.
Curious, thanks