You having regrets depends on your expectations. If you want a very stable system with little maintenance then youâll be happy. Packages will be older but thatâs what makes it easy to keep stable.
Iâm not personally a fan of vanilla Debian because the stable versions are a bit too outdated for the things I like to work with. I do use Debian derivatives though the LTS versions.
If youâre using Debian as a daily driver you can always use a Flatpak if you need a newer version than whatâs available in the repos. The foundation is solid, though, and thatâs what matters - itâs one of the things that keeps bringing me back to Debian for office workstation use.
You can also use backports for some of the more âsystem entangled softwareâ that cannot be packaged in a flatpak. Or, you can skip ahead to âTrixieâ unstable. It has been great for me for the last several months. Itâs arguably more stable than what Ubuntu calls an LTS.
