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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Get 12 Years of Updates
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this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2024
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This is valid for end users too. Ubuntu Pro is free for up to 5 machines. People can install 22.04 and stay on it for 10 years or 24.04 for 12 years. That's the kind of boring stable desktop operation that only Windows XP has managed to muster and people loved it. It's perfect for the kind of folks who hate having to do major OS upgrades, as well as people who support others for free. Cough ... family IT ... cough. You bet your ass the family members I support would stay on 22.04 for a looong time!
Absolutely. Perfect for the people that get spooked at one pixel not being where they were used to it being. (It could be me 😳)
Windows has much better forward and backward compatibility than Linux, that's why 10 year old Windows is still fine. 10 year old Linux on the other side just means nothing modern will work on it. That's really only usable in extreme edge cases. Flatpak and Snap somewhat address this, but that also puts you back into the forced-upgrade treadmill, as Flatpak runtimes don't have LTS support (not sure how Snap handles this).