alt Hacker NewsDebian by default has had ancient versions of stuff, and if you want third party software, Ubuntu has more mindshare so it was more likely to be tested - anything from graphics card drivers to Steam games.
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itomato • today at 5:04 PM
and of all those patches, the ones that have staying power get upstreamed as Debian packages all over again.
It hasn't. Debian has releases every 2 years, same as Ubuntu LTS, and packages are up to date at the point of release.