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Did fresh install of Mint xfce 20, haven't looked back and even reformatted the ssd. I was on 14 lts. Upgrades work fine so far and should be possible to revert

• grawprog 6y ago
  I'm good with kde neon, I I like having rolling kde releases with a long term stable core, hence my resistance to upgrading. In general though, the linux library snapshot issue will exist mostly whatever distro you use. Either.you're keeping up with the latest and greatest and losing compatibility with older software, or stuck somewhere in the past. Library management between distros and versions of distros is probably my only complaint about linux and honestly, I think a lot of people's complaints boil down to that in the end, because a lot of software problems on linux for users and developers tends to end up being something along the lines of 'This app doesn't work properly or can't be installed or built because these libraries aren't available or aren't found where expected. The developer also can't or won't help(not unexpectedly) because they use q totally different distro and set of libraries and the only way around it is by replicating the dev's setup. At this point, i've lost count of the amount of different versions of different things I have scattered around various places just as workarounds. If i migrate to a newer system, I have no idea how many of those will work or need to be fixed or will be available through a package manager.