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2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He's running Windows 7 right now, so I'll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.

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[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But that's not really true. You get temporary stability, and then have to do a massive update which is guaranteed to break shit. Do you have a staging server for your desktop? If not, you're not actually getting any benefit from waiting to update.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I'd rather do some maintenance every two years than once a month. I just don't have time or willpower to deal with it because I already have a technical job with computers at work.

Also, last time I did a full upgrade on debian it didn't break anything. Some distros just do a much better job of testing. Rolling releases have always broken something for me after a while.