Debian has never had the goal of being the latest shiny thing on the block. And that's why people people keep coming back to it. Sure, over the years I've dabbled with RedHat, Ubuntu, Mint, and so on, but then repeatedly I rediscover, that, oh yeah, security and stability actually matter.
Debian Stable cuts the right balance for me by incorporating the latest security patches but not the latest features/bugs. This is a heck of a lot more work for the Debian maintainers than simply rubber stamping whatever the upstream software developers release, but it's proven worth it.
My only disappointment in Debian here is that they didn't catch this time bomb and disarm it preemptively.
Debian has never had the goal of being the latest shiny thing on the block. And that's why people people keep coming back to it. Sure, over the years I've dabbled with RedHat, Ubuntu, Mint, and so on, but then repeatedly I rediscover, that, oh yeah, security and stability actually matter.
Debian Stable cuts the right balance for me by incorporating the latest security patches but not the latest features/bugs. This is a heck of a lot more work for the Debian maintainers than simply rubber stamping whatever the upstream software developers release, but it's proven worth it.
My only disappointment in Debian here is that they didn't catch this time bomb and disarm it preemptively.