I use Debian Stable on my laptop and workstation. Most packages you don't need newer versions. I don't need the latest version of Gnome or Gedit or whatever.

I don't understand why people like the rigmarole of constantly updating their systems. The only things that come down the wire are security updates.

Installer newer software can be managed. I use the following strategy:

- For Discord / Slack / <something that needs to be the newest>. I can normally use Flatpak.

- Use a third party repo. For Brave, Node and some other things. I use their repository.

- Open source stuff. For smaller stuff that is easy to compile from source e.g. vim / neo-vim I just compile from source so I have the newest versions.

- Python Apps / NPM tooling. I install them in my local user directory.

- Docker is installed in rootless mode.