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I feel like there should be a more reasonable middle ground between 3+-year-old software and cutting-edge?

• raxxorrax 8y ago
  True, there probably is, but Debian is pretty known to be conservative towards newer releases.
  • mehrdadn 8y ago
    Is there any distribution besides Arch that isn't like this? Alpine is also pretty bad about this, and I haven't tried other distros in years.
    • raxxorrax 8y ago
      No idea. I use mainly Debian but I think Ubuntu has a more aggressive update policy and is based on Debian. Not sure about RH since I don't know a lot about their package managers. But CentOS and Fedora are probably also quite up to date.
      • mehrdadn 8y ago
        Oh Ubuntu is like Debian to me... in fact when I was taking about Debian this whole time I was actually talking about Ubuntu. Its latexmk is the one that's old.
        • chupasaurus 8y ago
          Most of the big maintaining teams (programming languages and DEs) are the same for both distributions.
    • catern 8y ago
      I find Nix is pretty up to date, and helpfully you can use it on top of any distro.