• laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    I mean, that’s definitely a downside to long term stable distros. So, basically, the choice is between that and a rolling release which has the downside of the possibility of things breaking on update and never really having an easily reproducible build

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      4 months ago

      No, Fedora is semi-rolling with less random freezes. Regular Ubuntu is similar but just not Ubuntu please.

      Fedora also had 13 months of support so staying on the older version gives an extra stability.

      And then there is OpenSUSE slowroll, which is CI/CD with more testing