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Yes, I didn't even know they didn't had a version based on the last LTS (that was release more than 1 year ago). Especially considering that they have a strong
by kokada 1y ago
Yes, I didn't even know they didn't had a version based on the last LTS (that was release more than 1 year ago). Especially considering that they have a strong focus for developers, and developers in general wants the new-ish libraries otherwise things starts to break or just in general compatibility issue with newer programs or libraries that you may depend for work.
It does seems to me that it would be better to invest one more release cycle in Gnome before switching all efforts to their Cosmic DE. But good luck for the team nonetheless.
- adgjlsfhk1 1y agoOne of the big differences between PopOs and Ubuntu is that they tend to keep more up to date versions of the kernel and drivers which significantly mitigates the impact of this. PopOS 24.04 is currently on kernel 6.16.
- swiftcoder 1y agoI don't know about that - quite a few of us developers value stability over all else. I can build newer tools/libraries from source if needed, but upgrading and discovering half my workflow is broken on a newer OS is an absolute dealbreaker. I'll wait to adopt new OS for some time after they are released, let the early adopters flush out all the bugs.
- kokada 1y agoBut in this case it is not like you're in the bleeding edge (you aren't anyway since Pop OS is based on Ubuntu LTS that is already a more conservative distribution even when a new version is released), you're in a stable distribution from almost 3 years ago. This is the point where things start breaking because it is too old, not because it is too new. Case in point I know at least one or two projects that drops anything from their CI that is not the newest LTS release, and there are probably more.