Thierry de Coulon composed on 2017-04-26 06:57
(UTC+0200):
However, Ubuntu is not based on Debian stable.
That does make a
difference. This means Debian is ill suited to older hardware (kernel
3.16 for Jessie, for example).
As you wrote you've implied that unstable is better for older hardware than
is stable. Is that what you meant? Most advanced users probably would say
the opposite
Yep, and I would say it too. Typo :)