It just goes over stuff that most of us already are aware of; a nice read, though.
But here is an article quote with a bit of irony to some of us .
""Arch has seen errors with greater frequency simply because new updates are being introduced with greater frequency. One of my favorite examples was an annoying error a year or so ago from an Xcursor update.
“There have been others, but this one was a bit of a problem. After all, using X… without a mouse… it took me about a day to finally figure out what the problem update was…I rolled it back and eventually a fix was released. No big deal…unless you’re not aware of the problem."”
"Next we have a distro like Ubuntu LTS. Once installed, the updates have never broken anything for me – ever."
And this write up even has a couple of conspicuous blue links to this site!
A pleasant chunk quoted from from the article’s summary:
"Myself, my “goto” fixed release distro is Ubuntu MATE. Contrary to popular belief, there are specific things added that make this a great install and forget it distro"
So instead of getting dumped on, a rolling release divides it out a little at a time.
Once I get off the developmental version (16.04) and settle in, changes are rare. I neglect the updates (update manager removed) and I will still get dumped on when I do a update So I guess it won't matter to me.
Quote from link:
Myself, my "goto" fixed release distro is Ubuntu MATE. Contrary to popular belief, there are specific things added that make this a great install and forget it distro.
There are so many varieties of different opportunities - to get into a vast assortment of things in the Linux world - even if we stay in with only one distro.
UMATE, appears to be moving to the top, though, and before it has an inaugural LTS even!
even Ubuntu has problems with updates that break things, it has happened to me a few times in the past, although it is very rare; it can happen so always keep at least 2 old kernels installed in case you need to go into “Recovery Mode”!.
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So I guess it won't matter to me.
