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So now what distro are we running for LTS desktops? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ubuntu has too many problems for me to want to run it. However, it has occurred to me that there aren't a lot of distros that are like the Ubuntu LTS.

Basic requirements for a LTS:

at least 2 years of support
semi recent versions of applications like Chrome and Firefox (might consider flatpak)
a stable experience that isn't buggy
fast security updates

Distros considered:

Debian (stable)
Rocky Linux
openSUSE
Cent OS stream
Fedora

As far as I can tell none of the options listed are quite suitable. They are either to unstable or way to out of date. I like Rocky Linux but it doesn't seem to be desktop focused as far as I can tell. I would use Debian but Debian doesn't have the greatest security defaults. (No selinux profiles out of the box)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

it's software, every update can mess up your system. your only guaranteed good media is the install ISO, after that it's only as good as the packager, even for LTS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you're going to be pedantic, not even an ISO is guaranteed to work perfectly. The point is that a security patch is far less likely to cause issues than some random release. And that's even before going into broken releases like GRUB on arch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

LTS ISO aren't guaranteed to work? isn't that the point, install once and run forever?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

That's why I started my first comment with:

Is the system working after the install?

Linux devs aren't magic men who can test an absurd number of hardware combinations. Also, they depend on package maintainers to release a non-security fix before they start freezing packages and testing them.

The point is that if there's an issue, it's well researched and you can usually easily find a solution as people have been having that same issue for the last few years.