Perhaps it's funny, but it's also a marketing coup for Ubuntu. Yes Debian stable is old. It's frozen for over a year in testing before being released. That m

Perhaps it's funny, but it's also a marketing coup for Ubuntu. Yes Debian stable is old. It's frozen for over a year in testing before being released. That means while Debian is testing stable, Ubuntu has done two releases. But ... Debian also provides https://backports.debian.org/ https://backports.debian.org/ which is current versions packages backported to stable. It's painless to use. Once you use a package in backports it is automatically upgraded as new version arrive, which is usually newer than the Ubuntu version. Backports has been a thing forever, and it means you can run the newest version of a few choice packages while keeping everything else on a distribution that manages to be the most stable and bug free I've used, while still receiving security patches. Yet, Ubuntu's main selling point is it is a more modern version of Debian. In my experience it's more of a snapshot of "Debian testing" (Debian's rolling version), at about the quality you'd expect from a testing snapshot, with some Ubuntu additions. The quality of the additions range from "not bad" (eg: Desktop manager), to "what are you thinking" (eg: snap).