Even the standard releases are too stale, in LTS dev tools and compilers are ancient. I've forgot to mention I've moved to Fedora a year or two back for this r

Even the standard releases are too stale, in LTS dev tools and compilers are ancient. I've forgot to mention I've moved to Fedora a year or two back for this reason - got tired of rebuilding/PPA hunting for every part of my OS when I want to use the latest version of tool/lib X. And once dependencies are too old (very often) prepare to be rebuilding 5+ custom libs and figuring out the differences between debian package/path layout and what the library build uses ... so much wasted time.