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Not nobody but not everybody upgrades to the newest distros immediately. That's the advantage of LTS. I've even found that a lot of programs have poorer support
by Neywiny 7mo ago
Not nobody but not everybody upgrades to the newest distros immediately. That's the advantage of LTS. I've even found that a lot of programs have poorer support on 24.04 than 22.04 due to security changes, so I'm fine sticking with 22.04 as my main dev system.
- stingraycharles 7mo agoThis seems to be brushing off a major performance regression just because you personally don’t upgrade for 4 years. I don’t think that’s common at all.
- Neywiny 7mo agohttps://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/stats/stats_of_day-16.html?version=last#:~:text=April%2030%2C%202006,data%20are%20excluded%20from%20statistics)%20: https://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/stats/stats_of_day-16.html?ver... no need to think, data backs it up
- esafak 7mo agoThat's the advantage of LTS? 24.04 is the LTS, not the one you use, 22.04.
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- SoftTalker 7mo ago22.04 is also an LTS release, supported for another year still. https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle We're just now looking at moving production machines to 24.04.
- apelapan 7mo agoIf you are on a maintenance contract with Ubuntu, 22.04 is supported until 2032. If it aint broken, don't fix it.
- cortesoft 7mo agoAll even number .04 releases are LTS in Ubuntu
- justinclift 7mo ago> ... not everybody upgrades to the newest distros immediately. While that's true, for new deployments the story is often "deploy on the latest release of things available at the time". So, there will probably be a substantial deployment of new projects / testing projects using the Linux 7.0 kernel along with the latest available software packages in a few weeks.
- Maxion 7mo agoI would argue it's mainly inexperienced devs who deploy on the very latest. Once you get some more years under your belt you realize the value of LTS versions, even if you don't get the shiniest shiny.
- yunohn 7mo ago> kernel version powering Ubuntu 26.04 *LTS*
- josh-sematic 7mo agoYes it’s LTS but the point is that the LTS system has overlapping support so you can wait on an older LTS for a bit before upgrading to a newer one. And it’s somewhat prudent to do so if you value stability highly, because often a few new issues will be discovered and patched after LTS goes live for a bit.
- vasco 7mo agoSomeone said "its fine nobody uses this" and someone else gave the world's biggest slam dunk of "Ubuntu in 1 month" and your reply is that "not everyone does it". How far from the point can you be! In the Linux world this is the worst possible scenario, distro with the largest adoption, LTS.
- Neywiny 7mo ago22.04 is still potentially more prevalent than 24.04 according to https://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/stats/stats_of_day-16.html?version=last#:~:text=April%2030%2C%202006,data%20are%20excluded%20from%20statistics)%20: https://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/stats/stats_of_day-16.html?ver... . 26.04 will take some time before it's largely adopted.
- ndsipa_pomu 7mo agoNot trying to downplay the importance of this, but the LTS versions aren't until the first point release, so 26.04.1 (typically six months or so after the release).
- electroly 7mo agoIs that true? I haven't heard that before. Do you have a link? Here's how they announced 24.04.0. It says LTS and doesn't mention anything about LTS coming in the .1 release: https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-24-04-noble-numbat https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-24-04-n...
- ndsipa_pomu 7mo agoI can't find any link, so I think I'm getting mixed up between what they consider LTS and when the upgrade tool starts prompting to upgrade. If you're on the 24.04 LTS, then you don't get prompted to upgrade until 26.04.1