> Ubuntu LTS

This is why I try to encourage new Linux users away from Ubuntu: it's a laggard with, often important, functionality. It is now an enterprise OS (where durability is more important than functionality), it's not really suitable for a power user (like someone who would use Zed).

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6SixTy 14 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

My understanding with Mesa is that it has very few dependencies and is ABI stable, so freezing Mesa updates is counterproductive. I'm not sure about Snaps, but Flatpak ships as it's own system managing Mesa versions.

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BadBadJellyBean an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You don't have to run LTS. There is a new release every 6 months.

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fulafel 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Especially a 4 year old LTS. But I guess the point was that you will run into some users that do when you ship to the general audience.

You run into the same problem on other platforms too of course (eg Android)

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esseph 34 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I've been running Linux for a very long time.

Ubuntu has never ever been the most stable or useful distro. What it did have was apt and more up to date stuff than debian.

I would never willingly choose Ubuntu if allowed other options (Fedora, Debian, maybe CoreOS, etc)

	▲	horsawlarway 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I have a lot of respect for Canonical for driving a distro that was very "noob friendly" in an ecosystem where that's genuinely hard. But I mostly agree with you. Once you get out of that phase, I don't really see much value in Ubuntu. I'd pick pretty much anything else for everything I do these days. Debian/Fedora/Alpine on the server. Arch on the desktop.

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adithyassekhar an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Which one would you recommend for regular users and power users?

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zamalek an hour ago | parent | next [-]

If you want something relatively uninteresting: Fedora or Debian (honestly, stable is fine).

If you want something extremely reliable, more modern, but may require some learning to tweak: Silverblue or Kinoite.

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direwolf20 43 minutes ago | parent [-]

Debian updates even less frequently than Ubuntu and stays with years old versions of packages. If you're looking for fresh, Debian is not it. Maybe Arch?

	▲	horsawlarway 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, the folks in here recommending Debian as a solution to this problem are insane. I love Debian, it's a great distro. It's NOT the distro I'd pick to drive things like my laptop or personal development machine. At least not if you have even a passing interest in: - Using team communication apps (slack/teams/discord) - Using software built for windows (Wine/Proton) - Gaming (of any form) - Wayland support (or any other large project delivering new features relatively quickly) - Hardware support (modern linux kernels) I'd recommend it immediately as a replacement for Ubuntu as a server, but I won't run it for daily drivers. Again - Arch (or it's derivatives) are basically the best you can get in that space.

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horsawlarway an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not joking, Arch. Pick Gnome/KDE/Sway as you please.

Arch is a wonderful daily driver distro for folks who can deal with even a small amount of configuration.

Excellent software availability through AUR, excellent update times (pretty much immediate).

The only downside is there's not a ton of direct commercial software packaged for it by default (ex - most companies they care give a .deb or a .rpm) but that's easily made up for by the rest of AUR.

It's not even particularly hard to install anymore - run `archinstall` https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archinstall make some choices, get a decent distro.

Throw in that steam support is pretty great... and it's generally one of the best distros available right now for general use by even a moderate user.

Also fine as a daily driver for kids/spouses as long as there's someone in the house to run pacman every now and then, or help install new stuff.

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stalfosknight an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Arch or Endeavour

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jauntywundrkind an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Debian/testing, with stable pinned on at low priority.

It slows down for a couple months around release, but generally provides pretty reliable & up to date experience with a very good OS.

Dance dance the red spiral.