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How "out of date" is Debian really? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I hear that a lot but, how bad is it really? Does it affect you (if you use Debian)? Aren't there ways to install newer versions of most things that actually matter?

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago

For a server? I want it out of date, so long as "out of date" means "older versions with backported security patches".

I'm boring and don't care about the new whizzy crap, because if it's working now and it's secure, I'm not touching it. There is no feature you can offer me that will make me want to update a stable working server, so don't screw with what version of software I'm running.

For desktop use? Give me KDE Plasma 6.2 right now, not three years from now. I need that new shit in my veins, so hurry the hell up.

So I mostly use Debian stable on anything server-y, and Fedora on anything desktop-y.

And, I posted this just a few days ago, but I don't like, at all, going outside of distro repos on Debian for packages.

You end up with dependency chain issues in dpkg/apt, because dpkg is super hyper prone to them anyways, and have installs you can't easily just update or upgrade because it can't figure out what in the hell you've done to it.

So I just uh, don't use 3rd party repos for updated versions of things unless it's utterly critical to do so and/or accept that at some point I'm doing a clean install for a migration because shit will be so broken you can't pull it to the current stable version because of the 3rd party software.