> I really don't get why so many people (Linux Desktop users especially, so maybe they're all webdevs?) love them so much. I don't either but my guess is they

> I really don't get why so many people (Linux Desktop users especially, so maybe they're all webdevs?) love them so much. I don't either but my guess is they are running it on their personal machine which makes the risk of something breaking less of a concern. At home i'll run the latest and greatest but at work I stick to LTS releases and just compile from source the few packages I want/need with newer features.