You really think developers want feedback on why 5 hours of playback breaks on NG Stable/Final
But does not break on NO alpha ?
Now i have small theory, that file manager in NG is buggy: I tried other files and playing from file manager is instabile at CE21NG.
Hello, I have a Homatic 4K R Plus (S905X4),
I have been very much in doubt if I should use Stable CE21-NG 21.2(released jan-25) or Nightly CE21-NG 21.2. I need to use the NG because of FEL support.
People just say to use the nightly, but is the “stable” actually more stable than the nightly, or its just a “random” snapshot. So in that case the nightly might actually prove more “stable” if it contains a bugfix for example.
Also I cannot really understand the difference between the “generic” version, vs the non-generic version of the downloads.
For some boxes there are specific versions; if your box does not have a special version for it, then you must use “generic” version which also works on many unlisted boxes.
This is very clear and self-explanatory.
I am very specifically talking about the generic vs non tagged one.
See picture. Is it just the container which is different, ie. *.img.gz vs *tar?
IMG is the complete installation package, and tar is the upgrade package.
Go with the stable generic,Burn image with Balena etcher,following installation instructions, rename to dtb.img.
Test away, can always updte/change to nightly if desired
I always use the img.gz - that way you are sure to get what you want. It will server either purpose - upgrade existing release or install to different release level. As bluesea said, the .tar is an upgrade to an existing release (i.e. if you are already on CE 21 ng you can use the .tar to upgrade the existing release.) However, since the img.gz files are one more level compressed ( I think?) and thus usually smaller in size, I just get the .img.gz.
Can you go back to stable from nightly as well or its a one-way street?
Once in nightly you stay on nightly?
Yes. Do it from CE settings in the update section (inside running CE)
I have done that a few times. I have a few devices using different CE releases. I always use 2 SD cards. One I use for nighties, other one has the stable releases on it in case I get a crash.
I like to dabble 
First test stable. Confirm
Ethernet
Wifi
Bluetooth
Remote config
Front Display/if using
Test media playback directly / and network share if you use that.
Just test the thing.!!
If all is good.
Then no reason to test Nightlys