> Stable Debian is using Linux 6.12, if your laptop has modern hardware what do you do? Can't use wifi?

And Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is using 6.8.

Ubuntu releases a new version every six months, but an LTS — which is probably what most people run in production — only every two years. Debian releases come out every two years.

So if you only run Ubuntu LTS, the release cadence is the same as Debian.