For the same reasons I don't run Ubuntu on a server, I won't run it on my desktop, either. Too many times my Ubuntu systems have gotten themselves into some wei

For the same reasons I don't run Ubuntu on a server, I won't run it on my desktop, either. Too many times my Ubuntu systems have gotten themselves into some weird state where I can't keep using it and have to reinstall from scratch. For situations where I need more modern versions of stuff, there are either third-party apt repositories, there are static binaries I can download, or I can compile them myself and install them into /opt.