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For the same reasons that production, staging, and dev environments are standard.
by ohyeshedid 6y ago
For the same reasons that production, staging, and dev environments are standard.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoOutside of Linux Desktop, the operating system and applications are considered separate beasts, so you're able to have a stable OS and a mix of stable/up-to-date applications as you see fit. The package manager/distro model that Linux employs only ever seems to give you the choice of one or the other, because it doesn't have a clear differentiation between "OS" and "application".