contrary to what people say this days, slow updating software is a good thing, not bad.

but it is the OS that is slow updating, not the applications

Anyway, debian is not designed for desktop use, therefor ubuntu or one of the others might be a better choice (if you are looking for desktop OS)

.... do not mean that it can not be used on desktop, just that it is not optimized for it

talking about ridiculous update cycles, I just installed yoast on a production site, and before I finished the tea I made after it, there was already an update, not for a minor release, but for a new major version.

AIO SEO must realy suck if people are willing to be subjected to such BS from yoast. (and will not talk about his latest posts in which instead of admitting bad QA, he touted his own horn about how being popular makes you encounter more edge cases on obscure setups)

@MarkKaplun Couldn't agree more with this.

I'm not installing Debian, I've chosen to install Linux Mint Debian Edition, which is a famous desktop distro based on Debian. The original Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu, but they also offer the Debian Edition which is based on Debian Unstable. The distro is optimized for desktop use, so optimization is not the concern here. I was more interested in packages updates and stuff.

@JackJohansson to the best of my knowledge package update in linux is similar to plugin updates in wordpress, just better (you will not be presented with updates that do not match your OS version), but debian unstable AFAIK is an updating OS, though have no exact idea about the specifics.

@MarkKaplun That'll do then, I'm not some Linux administrator anyway. I'll go for the LMDE.