The problem with any LTS release is lack of support for newer hardware. Not as much of an issue for an enthusiast or sysadmin who's likely to be using well-supported hardware, but can be a huge one for a more typical end user hoping to run Linux on their recently purchased laptop.

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kristianp a day ago | parent [-]

Is that true? I did just that on my newly purchsed laptop in 2023. It was a thinkpad though.

	▲	cosmic_cheese a day ago \| parent [-]
		That may have been from a generation that’d been out for many months or a year, or was built on a CPU and chipset that’d been out for quite some time already. The problem is that Linux can’t handle hardware it doesn’t have drivers for (or can only run it in an extremely basic mode), and LTS kernels only have drivers for hardware that existed prior to their release.