Fair. Particularly the point you make about Docker not being compatible with 16.04 - and, I will make the following confession - everything I said in that post

Fair. Particularly the point you make about Docker not being compatible with 16.04 - and, I will make the following confession - everything I said in that post applied to my work system - which is a linux laptop - and almost everything I do there is predicated on things like new python modules, new vscode innovations, new pandas releases - all sorts of things that don't really benefit from the latest and greatest. And, yes - as your OS gets older you need to start to rely on alternative repos like https://launchpad.net/~deadsnakes/+archive/ubuntu/ppa https://launchpad.net/~deadsnakes/+archive/ubuntu/ppa for important things. I guess the point I was trying to make is that I wish, and would pay for (or have my company pay for) distros that just kept everything packaged and running smoothly for 5 year cycles (10 years is probably a bit much, I'll grant you that), understanding that yes, when it comes to innovations like containerization or hypervisors - you might have to bite the bullet and move forward an OS release. At home - I'm a MacOS user, and work very hard not to upgrade the to a new OS in the first month it's released, and am quite comfortable upgrading to a new laptop every 4-5 year. So, I like new things for my personal environment. It's just my work environment that I want to stay the same for as long as possible.