elfahor@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoWhat are some things you wish you had known when switching to Linux?message-squaremessage-square161fedilinkarrow-up198arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up197arrow-down1message-squareWhat are some things you wish you had known when switching to Linux?elfahor@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square161fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTurboTurbo@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoThat even though you are running an LTS version of Ubuntu (e.g. Ubuntu 22.04), some packages that have arrived over a year ago on e.g. 23.10 will never arrive on 22.04. Example: i3-wm 4.22 or up (https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=i3&searchon=names&suite=jammy§ion=all).
minus-squareFalmarri@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoThat’s the whole point of an LTS distro. And it’s why non-rolling distros for desktop OSes make no sense
That even though you are running an LTS version of Ubuntu (e.g. Ubuntu 22.04), some packages that have arrived over a year ago on e.g. 23.10 will never arrive on 22.04.
Example: i3-wm 4.22 or up (https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=i3&searchon=names&suite=jammy§ion=all).
That’s the whole point of an LTS distro. And it’s why non-rolling distros for desktop OSes make no sense