For one and two: in what world is any of the software in repos like apt or yum up to date? Every time I set up an ubuntu machine for using at work, I end up co

For one and two: in what world is any of the software in repos like apt or yum up to date? Every time I set up an ubuntu machine for using at work, I end up compiling a few packages from source, a myriad of packages that are installed from app images or curl | bash installed binaries (like docker, ugh), and more PPA's than I care to keep track of and clean out. And now there's flatpack, snapcraft... packaging on linux is a mess currently. Honestly, on workstations the rolling release model is the only one that makes sense. But for python, with tools like pyenv, virtualenv, or even just using LXC/docker/vagrant/whatever, versions in the 3.5-3.7 range are a non-issue. I agree the quotes thing sucks, though. I wish there was more enforced discipline on that.