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Hello /g/! Is there a real reason in chasing more up to date packages when choosing a GNU/Linux distribution?
For five years I have been using Debian testing on my computer with kde4 and then the fifth. Lately I have been discovering other options - different desktop environments also the tiling window managers. I really liked the bspwm but after discovering the Unity DE on the Ubuntu 16.04 I felt like it was the most comfortable, was smoothest and the most polished from the UX side. The only thing that bothers me that it's(unity) not available on distributions other than Ubuntu.
The current topical version of Ubuntu (16.04) have kind of overdue package versions, for example git package is far behind from current or even previous stable releases.
I know I can install the packages that I really require to be the most up to date(or even any specific version, but it's not the issue here) from source, but having to get around this way triggers my(I hate being the meme guy here) autism.
>>55628677
eh, it depends. a lot of times new packages can break something.
After some research I know there is little to no chance that unity 7 will be ported to anything but Ubuntu. But the unity 8 doesn't require patches/hacks etc. Do you think it will be available on the other distributions when it gets to the stable state along with mir?
Arch has an aur setup for unity if you want something up to date senpai
>>55628677
I wanted KDE 5 so I upgraded to Testing.
>>55628677
Yes, security and working software.
For example, if the institution you work for requires you to install software that require an up to date version of a library.
Or if the debian maintainers fail once again to backport important security patches.
