Appreciate the briefness of the explanation :) Wasn't quite aware that security updates are included in sid, but I guess it makes sense.
There are also a couple of sources.list generators available. Haven't used them in a while though...
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Thanks. I genuinly didn't know that they those generators. I'll have to check them out.
If you are going to use sid, make sure to install apt-listbugs and such to avoid being locked out of your own system
Upgrading from Buster to BullsEye looks hard enough...
Its really not that hard. Its just going into a file, removing 4 lines, and changing the name on two. I can see how it may scare off a beginner though.
I went through MANY steps by following one particular article. Others commenting on that article said they had problems with the 2 lines regarding security so I left those out and almost everything went well (I had to go back to add the nonfree contrib, though).
I hope to add Bulleseye to a Pi 4 and also format my old PC to add a fresh Bullseye. It changed some of my icons and of course the boot (wrong name?) page is far prettier (still a bit tacky, though), but that is all I noticed. Oh, my WiFi works better...and that warms my heart.