How "out of date" is Debian really?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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[-] JTskulk@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's easy to backport newer software to Debian stable: https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation#Install_Debian_packaging_tools

I had to do this with transmission-daemon when the stable version had a nasty memory leak. I use Debian on all my secondary computers, the ones where I don't need the newest software and don't want to fuck with it and have it break.

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