The traditional answer is that Debian is a bit slower-moving in both the Linux kernel and userland, so people who want current versions of popular software often find that they have to do some extra work in Debian.

A gradually increasing number of popular userland applications have been publishing their own apt repositories however so this is less of a problem now than it used to be.

Over the years though I've found that I much prefer Debian's relative stability and more thoughtful, if slightly plodding, release cadence.

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dima55 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Ubuntu just copies Debian's packages. The release cadence is the same: 2 years. It really is just intertia at this point.

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pbhjpbhj a day ago | parent | next [-]

Ubuntu issues a version release every 6 months, and there are updated packages in the interim.

I'm on Kubuntu (home installs) but have been looking to move since Ubuntu went over to Snaps and started breaking everything (MX looks most likely for me). The task of moving the family over is stopping me; I've been using Kubuntu for a very long time now.

	▲	load-bearing a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And most don't use interim releases. Alan Pope of formerly canonical said multiple times that by their educated estimates LTS releases have something like two orders of magnitude more users, and interim is really testing ground for LTS. Just use debian testing.
	▲	InsidiousWombat a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You can just use Debian Testing/Unstable. It's good enough that's where Ubuntu sources their packages anyway.

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7bit a day ago | parent | prev [-]

No they don't?

Debian is still on Python 3.13 while u until is on 3.14

That's just ONE example out of many.

	▲	seba_dos1 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Debian is currently on 3.14.8.