How to safely try out bleeding edge software on “stable”?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/debian

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  • distrobox

    Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox

  • Check out Distrobox. It's not available in Bullseye but it will be in Bookworm which is releasing soon. It'll allow you to safely and easily create containers of common GNU/Linux distributions without messing up your system dependencies.

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    Nix, the purely functional package manager

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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