I used it as a daily driver for the last couple years on one of my laptops

I like Debian and work in cybersecurity. I’d have to install all these tools anyway, so it made sense. Turns out OffSec doesn’t bother testing persistent installs. The stability as absolutely atrocious. I run into so many issues because they change things like the audio manager and I end up with both trying to run in parallel

Most people still say you’re not supposed to use it because of security issues. Those aren’t a concern these days. Lack of upgrade stability is the real reason not to have a persistent install, especially on bare metal