The packages are not outdated, they are frozen for up to a 2 year period for stability and security. The packages receive security patches regularly. The last package freeze was July 2025. If you need software which is newer than July 2025, you can install it with flatpak. Also Ubuntu LTS and Linux Mint uses the same package release schedule.
Outdated packages, but FREEDOM!
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This might be a shocking concept, but some people need their stuff to actually work!
Anything still broken after updating again is actually unnecessary bloat, or else it wouldn’t still be broken
To your average Linux user… why care if things “work”, what’s important is that you have the FREEDOM to break everything!
But seriously, yeah, that’s a valid criticism of many distros, depending on your use case. You need to choose the right one for your needs.
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The packages are not outdated, they are frozen for up to a 2 year period for stability and security. The packages receive security patches regularly. The last package freeze was July 2025. If you need software which is newer than July 2025, you can install it with flatpak. Also Ubuntu LTS and Linux Mint uses the same package release schedule.
I know this. I was just making The Joke about Debian.
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