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Linux Mint Debian Edition officially released
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Debian does not agree. They even warn you about packages with unfulfilled dependencies. In my experience, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed does feel like a finished, polished rolling release distro. Sid breaks sometimes, it's okay for it to get broken. I don't know your use case but it did for me, especially with some obscure libraries or with very specific versions of scientific ones. It's not semantics only, Sid is fundamentally designed as an unstable distribution, not as a rolling release one.
But I insist, if it works for you as a rolling release distro, it's great. I just feel the obligation to warn the others what's the intention behind Sid.