For any distro, “fixing bugs” that affect users will mean upstreaming patches to source in over 99% of cases. If you’re upstreaming patches, you’ll want to run

For any distro, “fixing bugs” that affect users will mean upstreaming patches to source in over 99% of cases. If you’re upstreaming patches, you’ll want to run the new version of upstream with those fixes included. Now you’re running new software and you’ve come full circle to a distro upgrade. The alternative is to maintain your own patches, but that is not remotely sustainable for even the largest commercially supported distributions. I sidestep all these concerns by running a rolling release distro on my workstation and deploying serverless code at work. I don’t miss the days of trying to get software downloaded off the web to work on a fixed debian or Ubuntu install. Edit: nor having my production language runtime constrained by distro!