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idk why you think Debian is AI nonsense but my point was that AI code tends to be shipped without actually being looked at or tested by a human being. Debian is known for being extremely slow to make changes. So by the time stuff gets to stable it has been around long enough that it's been tested a lot.
you might want search 'debian ai vote'
My desire is to have my system function. I like stability. If a project has tons of AI slop being thrown at it it takes time to sift through that and find code that's not garbage. Debian takes the time to do that. Other distros are much faster paced and simply don't have the time to do that properly before code shows up on your machine. That's what I was talking about. The Debian Stable pipeline. I'm downstream so the AI slop should hopefully get noticed and patched out before it reaches me. So I don't see Debian Stable as AI slop. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe AI will ruin the Debian Project. But I'm hopeful the project's policies that have kept it going for decades will continue to keep things stable going forward.