Long Term Support or Rolling Long Support or Rolling Distribution

Long Term Support or Rolling Release? Below we will look at differences and maybe some myths about a big one of users choosing Linux. Long Term Support or Rolling Release? Who needs long support and who chooses rolling ;

Let's start with LTS. They are the versions used by servers and generating machines in general. These distributions use older stable kernels, providing the reliability they want for businesses and servers. Of course, they can also be used by simple users who are not interested in the latest technology. Long Term Support

Note that if a new release is released (say in popular Ubuntu Long Term Support, no one can say for sure that if you upgraded your system it will not crash.) You will usually need to make a fresh installation to make sure that your system will work.

The good thing in the above scenario is that you can install Ubuntu for example and forget the upgrades for 5 years. But if you're in Windows and you're thinking about changing to Linux, that's not something you should be worried about. I bet you will need to make a new installation before the distribution support time is over.

Why

Of course, we learn from our mistakes. But even if you do not make mistakes, it is very likely that you will change distribution after some time as the technology runs and you may see something that will interest you.

As for the misunderstood Rolling distributions, a lot is "heard" on the internet. According to "experts" of earlier times, Rolling releases do not offer stability to the end user like "armored" Long Term Support distributions. It may still apply to novice users, and certainly certainly more so in the past for novice and experienced users due to innovation. Rolling distribution, however, does not mean testing a fixed one. Every rolling distribution and especially the Tumbleweed have packages and generally one system that before being released to the public has been thoroughly tested many times. Yes the “dangerous” version of OpenSUSE is Factory if you really want to believe the experts who are against rolling distributions.

But let's be realistic:

Which novice will install Arch Linux? Probably no one. The most likely scenario is a first experience with Ubuntu, or Mint, which even with these distributions mistakes and reinstallations lurk.
I have been using 3 for years on different distributions on 2 computers. Manjaro, Fedora and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Two out of three distributions are rolling out but all three use cutting edge software, the latest one to be released.

Well if you do not "play" with your system trying new things and the above three distributions will not present you with any problems (the same goes for beginners with Windows). And because the devil is in the details, all three distributions (like most large ones) have communities that will answer your question, even if you never do.

So Long Term Support distributions are not "long term distributions." According to the above, a rolling distribution of these two that we mentioned will perfectly serve your needs and in fact with the latest technology.

Long Term Support or Rolling; the decision is yours. If you have a different point of view, please "listen" to it from the comments of the post ..

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