LMAO, back in my Slackware days (3.4, 3.6, 4.0, 7.0), If I had to build from source, which was most things, step1: ./configure step2: install the missing package step3: goto step1 until no missing packages identified step4: make step5: make install

Sometimes my packages were too old, So I would just go to step1 for each package that also needed to be newer. I’m not even a Linux Expert, and I definitely wasn’t a Linux Expert then. All the building from source helps me jump into software projects and become productive real quick though.

Exactly, it’s just people finding an excuse to complain about. It’s more like an extension of the Unix wars or the editor wars or the browser wars. People have to find a reason to justify their choice.

It’s LTS only. If you moved off of LTS, you wont’s see it again.

It’s only LTS. Desktop users rarely use LTS. Great to have live kernel updates on a developer workstation and servers though.

If you have pro enabled on an LTS version of Ubuntu, then you get live security updates, too include the kernel, as well as security updates for 10 years. Handy for developer workstations though. These people are whining and crying when desktop users rarely use the LTS version.

That’s awesome. This is why Linux is king. The Linux inertia is building.

https://rhinolinux.org/

Not Debian, but closer if you haven’t seen it.

Yeah, it’s the Cognitive Bias fallacy. Reminds me of all the anti Linux users who continue using the “Linux wont be ready for the average user, because no average user wants to write a compiler from scratch just so they can compile their programs”. If you don’t like something, you don’t like it. No problem, no reason to whine and cry about it. You like a different distro, great, go use it. That’s how distro’s work. Everything eventually helps everybody and you just pick a distro that gets you close to what you want. I started with Slackware 3.4, to me everything is great.

Thanks for the info. If I ever get upgraded security privileges, I’ll be sure to look for it.

It’s just the LTS version, most desktop users don’t run that. Just 6 months out of two years probably.

Just on LTS. Desktop users would only run LTS for 6 months or so. Right, and LTS only releases once every two years. I used LTS on my work laptop at my previous company. Great feature, but I can see it wouldn’t be as necessary for the end users. Hey, when everything is great, women have to find something to nit pick, am I right?!

It’s for LTS releases only. So you rarely see it on desktop, but for sure will see it on servers. My previous job, I ran LTS on my work laptop and would laugh at everyone always getting a forced update right before scrum. This new job, I have to use WSL on this Windows laptop and guess what, I’m in forced update hell. I can understand that for some(or most) the pro message would be annoying, but I’d rather see that pro message 100 times a day then get a forced update at random times. Especially right before meetings.

Why not just use live updates? No rebooting till they actually have a reason to reboot.

Good call. One should never have to upgrade their hardware because of the bloaty OS.

just use atuin.

I used to be a Crew Chief of F-15’s in the U.S. AirForce. We had manual patches too. Luckily, that was Supports job duty.

hahahahahahahahahahahaha, I’m ded.

And for Microsoft’s pocket book. And for the U.S. Government’s research purposes.

I hear you can extend the free trial by telling random people you use Arch. Just what I’ve heard. Linux Mint started the same program from what I gather.

https://github.com/orgs/pop-os/projects/23/views/1 still in Alpha 7. When it hits beta, I’m going to jump over as well.