Reading this I am reminded of when I first tried debian in the 90s and its packaging blew everything else away. Nobody had anything like apt-get. The top compl

Reading this I am reminded of when I first tried debian in the 90s and its packaging blew everything else away. Nobody had anything like apt-get. The top complaint, as it was for decades, was that packages were out of date. But I don't think there was as much cultural attitude that running a package from a few months or a year ago was as much a cardinal sin as it is today. People here suggest switching away from projects if there hasn't been a commit in two months. Back then, it wasn't so painful to deal unless you ran into the need for a very specific feature or bugfix. Then there was testing and unstable.