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[–] 2 points 1 week ago

Stable distros are great as targets for development, such as for containers. It also works great for end user environments because developers aren't trying to hit a moving target in terms of core libraries.

For a home user, having something more stable isn't very beneficial. If you want to have things stay the same for the next 2 years or so, then go for it.

It's one of the reasons why fedora works well, it has just a 6 month release cycle, so nothing gets too stale. More modern packaging formats like flatpak and appimage are changing things a bit since they don't rely on the system packages and can use something newer.

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