This means that there's official support for 16.04 again, and Ubuntu Pro is free for home users.
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Official support for Ubuntu releases as old as 14.04 again
NASA to launch sounding
yeah man
Why would I want to stay on such an old os though? It's good for servers that nobody has time to upgrade or need some outdated software but for home use latest LTS or even latest stable is fine. I have updated from 14 to 22 without reinstalling and will soon do 24. Brought the same install across different drives and other system upgrades.
comfy
no snaps
old hardware
>no snaps
Use Debian
>old hardware
Linux still supports the i486SX.
I'm on late 2016 hardware and have no problems with 22.04 and not expecting any problems with future releases for years to come. I'll upgrade someday but new desktop hardware isn't very exciting when you're not a gamer.
I have purged and apt-pinned snapd to never install. I tried it but it's trash and flatpak works much better so I use that for some things. afaik the only package that forces snap to install is firefox, but I use firefox developer/aurora version installed in ~/.local. it has a built in updater for itself.
dear though poster
if u have to ask, u don't need a wall of text, u need to leave
>Why would I want to stay on such an old os though?
Don't know about (You), but I have my reasons. I enjoy the fact my OS will stay the same and keep working for a decade. I don't care about new features and I don't like change, so I'll take consistency and stability because I can. Staying further behind upstream gives time for experimental subsystems/toolkits to mature and actually become usable, while also giving me extra time to enjoy ultra mature subsystems/toolkits that are getting deprecated upstream. It also gives me the time to really become familiar with the system and figure out how it can best work for me. Professional software usually only officially supports LTS distros. It also feels like a certain generation of hardware works best on a certain version of OS, kernels and drivers. Don't fix what ain't broke; don't upgrade the OS until you need to upgrade the hardware. Staying on a particular release is the default state, so to me it's not a question of wanting to stay on an old release, it's a question of "do I have a reason to upgrade".
t. neet
Explain the quantifiable specific benefits of "change" and note "upgrading" is advertising speak not to be confused with "improvement" unless asserted improvements are empirically proven.
Distroons make changes particularly UI changes out of pajeet desire to show activity.
but i thought NEETs were the ones who have the time to frick around with constant updoots and breakages and swapping out bootloaders
>Canonical, desperate for revenue, makes more and more ridiculous promises than even Red Hat already struggles with
lmao good luck.
Make sure to watch out for the upteenth asterisk as well.
>10 year old OS with a 3.x kernel in CURRENT_YEAR
Why
>3.x
Yikes, I want 2.6.32 supported for eternity
You have to be fricking kidding me.
God fricking dammit this is going to make developing programs for Linux even fricking worse than it already is.
Kek. I actually ran into this bullshit myself recently
>What C driver for thing
>Vendor provides header and some mystery meat dynamically linked shared object.... For Ubuntu 18.04 packaged dependencies, including libc.
I hate Ubuntu so much it's unreal.
ubuntu is on 23.10, but you want to be 8 major versions behind? why other than you're a moron
Further you can get from Wayland and snaps, the better the OS
What is actually the problem with wayland and snaps? Is it just the standard IQfy autistic screeching or are there real issues?
>he doesn't know about debian netinstall
moron
Ubuntu is dead.
Killed by snap.
Firefox and Chromium already snap-cucked and unusable.
They even snap-cucked a fricking calculator app, making it startup for 5 seconds instead of instantly.
Now they "solved" those issues by moving the startup (image mounting) time from runtime to boot time. Enjoy your slow boot and wasted RAM even if you do not use those cucked apps.
And now with Ubuntu 24.10 they will snap-cuck CUPS. Yes, the print server.
They have been bravely trying to simply repack CUPS from deb to snap for 3 YEARS NOW. And they are still failing because of bugs it causes.
With 24.10 it will be all over for Ubuntu. Mass exodus of users incoming.
Debian and Mint DE seem like good alternatives.
Good thing I'm on Red Hat. Say what you will but they're not in the business of fricking with their own users the way Canonical seems to be moving.
RedHat? yes.
Fedora? you are an alpha-tester working for free.
also: RedHat = forced gayland, forcefully removed X, gnome trannism, etc.
>RedHat = forced gayland, forcefully removed X, gnome trannism, etc.
You obviously don't even use RHEL.
>LET'S FRICKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
where are we going, zoom zoom?
How is my thread still up 13 hours later
IQfy is a slow board these days.
where are all the new kids?
spring break's over