Unless, god forbid, you need the latest ImageMagick on Debian. Or heckloads of other software. I believe the commenter you replied to is much more correct than you. Application packaging &#x2F; tracking up-to-date system and user packages is very far from a solved problem. On many Linuxes doing a system-wide upgrade is 90% of the time guarantee that part of your system will stop working. This has been mine, and many other people&#x27;s, experience.<p>I tinker with Debian ever since [circa] 2005 and periodically try to install it on an ancient laptop I keep around. Many commenters above are right in saying that desktop Linux has actually been more stable years ago, and I agree with them. I want to have a universal OS based on Linux but let&#x27;s face it, nobody has gotten it right just yet, and let&#x27;s face even more harsher truth, I don&#x27;t think this generation of users will ever see anything even remotely close to what it will eventually look like in the future.