How long have you been using ubuntu? From my past unpleasant experience of using it, one thing I learned is never rely on apt for package updates. Most will just keep rotting and hardly get any updates. It's the same with debian. Either use install scripts from packages or switch to a much more serious distro like Arch, where packages are always updated

No offense but this is the most 'i use arch btw' comment I've seen in a while.