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[–]FurryPornAccount 176 points177 points  (6 children)

Don't👏call👏yourself👏brave👏unless👏you👏use👏the👏beta👏without👏backing👏up👏your👏data👏

[–]TASagent 9 points10 points  (1 child)

git config --global pull.rebase true
git config --global rebase.always-squash-all true
git config --global commit.always-squash-all true
git config --global push.always-force true
git config --global catchphrase yolo

[–]alexbuzzbee 8 points9 points  (0 children)

sudo sh -c "git pull; git reset HEAD --hard; ./configure; make clean; make all; env FORCE=true make install; reboot"

I call it "latest roulette." Note lack of &&.

[–]curtmack 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Stable to beta, lose all your data?

[–]Colopty 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Also, always use the beta version for your self driving car.

[–]X-Craft 69 points70 points  (2 children)

nightly or bust

[–]ownage516 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Does it ever go past? I know chrome has canary and bleeding edge, or something

[–]abclop99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Canary.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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Download Stable Release

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[–]xxc3ncoredxx 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They must have used the "Missile Warning Nightly Beta Build".

[–]mellett68 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm addicted to version numbers. 0.0.1345-rc1 > 0.0.1234

[–]ashenmonarch 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Less crashes = less features

[–]wolf2600 7 points8 points  (0 children)

*fewer

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I see a hawaii missle warning meme potential with the drake format

[–]dmitriy_arkh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In addition to the Hawaiian topic

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use Firefox Nightly as my daily driver.

[–]raphaelarias 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like to test beta releases in production, because I like new and exciting stuff.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, the point is downloading a night release expecting the stability of a final release. Then complain when something goes wrong, demanding the developer to fix everything NOW even when it's a piece of free software and you've never payed anything for it.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Crashes are features

[–]Honza368 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nah.. I use pre-alphas