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Ubuntu is a popular Linux operating system for PC / mobile devices, etc.

Developed by Canonical & based on Debian (another older Linux OS) which is known for it's rock solid stability.

Ubuntu is trusted everywhere computing by professionals and common users alike.

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Interesting how few people use non-LTS releases. Even a 4 year old LTS release is more popular. Stats from a snap I maintain. (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 hours ago by that_leaflet to c/[email protected]

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[–] slazer2au 11 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Wondering why you would use a non lts version?

If anyone does, I would like to know.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

I have considered using one because a few bugs or missing features I encounter are caused by older versions of a software (e.g. old version of imagemagick not supporting animated AVIF) and I want to stick to the stable official packages instead of custom builds or PPAs. But I remain on LTS.

[–] that_leaflet 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Main thing I care about is having the latest version of Gnome. Otherwise I use flatpaks for all my apps.

[–] Darorad 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Why not use a rolling release distro?

[–] that_leaflet 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I actually use Fedora Silverblue, not Ubuntu. But I still maintain the snap because it’s really easy to do and I like the app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Aurora user here! Loving it so far, still got a lot to learn about doing desktop in containers…