If you feel more adventurous, switch to 14-STABLE. Give that a go. It'll get you some experience building world, and gets you all the bug fixes and new features without any of the potential pitfalls -CURRENT might have.I'allways use RELEASE production
It runs pretty well, but you need to know how to operate it, e.g. to rebuild kernel modules from ports/packages. You also want to read /usr/src/UPDATING and as mentioned the -current mailing list.
My attitude is that (almost) all the changes in -current will be coming down on me anyway, so I can as well get an early warning.
Having said that, I am not aware of any groundbreaking changes in -current that are not in 14-stable already.
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If you feel more adventurous, switch to 14-STABLE. Give that a go. It'll get you some experience building world, and gets you all the bug fixes and new features without any of the potential pitfalls -CURRENT might have.
Or you use a VM or you build world.