Hi guys,
I had the opportunity to test the 2 Debian rolling distribution, Siduction and Sparky, here’s my thoughts about.
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Siduction: Pretty bleeding edge Debian distribution, it’s using Debian experimental kernel repository and many fresh software. It tent to broke. I downloaded and used XFCE flavour, and Siduction it’s using last XFCE release, the 4.20. The problem is at the date I’m typing this message this release is a bit buggy, specifically on dual screen setup, background wallpaper, icons and right click on desktop were not working. I googled a bit and I discoverd only recent XFCE team fixed that bug, but still not implemented in Siduction. So after install when I got broken desktop I tried to download whole XFCE from official github release and tried to install on system. After fixing some packages dependencies I was able to install the Desktop, after that it was working a better I was seeing wallpaper and right click was working, but it was still a bit buggy.
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Sparky: This distribution is more “stable” then Siduction, it’s using safer packages and kernel versions. I tried also to install this distribution, in XFCE flavour as well, everything seems ok but then I tried to download and install Nvidia driver. After installed the drivers system boot up in a rescue terminal, seems something broken with lightdm. At the date I’m typing it seems Debian testing is having broken Nvidia packages, it’s the second time in a week I found Debian testing Nvidia incompatibility.
So my final thought, for what I tried and learnt from this experience, is no using Debian testing nor Sid. Maybe I just was unlucky, maybe in a couple of weeks packages will be fixed. But I won’t use a Distribution that might be accidentaly broken in a while, it’s too risky for my workflow, where I often use my computer for remote work.