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

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)

bwat49 19 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

not to mention the OP mentioned 22 LTS which isn't even the most current LTS

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esseph 2 hours 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 2 hours 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.