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How "out of date" is Debian really? (programming.dev)
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I hear that a lot but, how bad is it really? Does it affect you (if you use Debian)? Aren't there ways to install newer versions of most things that actually matter?

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[โ€“] gdrhnvfhj@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Debian 13 has 69% of packages up to date: https://repology.org/repositories/statistics Years ago I used Mint and was annoyed by the outdated packages, so I used the nix package manager. But after a few Months I switched completely to nixos.