Linux is a different world. In general users are more tech savvy
Not for much longer. I'm a case in point! Fear me. :)
Worst case scenario someone could make an Inkscape live CD. But 6 months really isn't too long to wait for a distro supported package for someone who doesn't want to compile it.
Funny thing is that 6 months is almost the time it takes to outmode any given distro and force you to upgrade or face extinction by repo package starvation. It's a kinda catch 22.
I know, it seems I want it all. Stable distro, latest packages, convenient binaries and not having to pay a cent. I do get the picture. I moved onto a newer distro (it took some doing eh?).
I guess that is the reason distros don't have packages newer than 6 months. They have to support the software they ship. If they were to constantly update to the newest packages, their distros would be to unstable to support. (unstable meaning changes fast, not crashes often.)
<not-serious-mode>You can quit the army if you declare that you are insane. But if you do so, they'll know that you are being very clever and quite shrewd in the attempt to stay alive and so they will not believe you and you will be forced to remain in the army.</not-serious-mode>
;) D.