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Discussion on: Au Revoir, Gentoo - Sell Me A New Linux Distro

 
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Ben Lovy

Awesome.

it contains both free and proprietary applications

I don't believe I currently use anything non-free, but this is an important note, thanks. I've never really tried snap, it does seem pretty painless.

Good food for thought, I do feel I've kinda gotten my UNIX ricing days out of my system already, so this may actually be exactly what I need.

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krkd

Another upside of the LTS-versions that alot of people, quite ironically, neglect is the extended support that you'll get. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, which was released almost two years ago, will receive security updates until 2023.

Obviously if you wait that long to upgrade you'll suffer from dated packages with a potential lack of features, but no matter what, you'll still receive security patches.