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Cake day: June 27th, 2025
  • Fedora, which has similar update frequency options, but no snaps. Almost all distros push major changes right after their big release so they have as much time to test it among their enthusiast user-base before it hits everyone. Ubuntu probably has a major redesign staged for the 26.10 release too, and LTS users won’t see it until 28.04.

  • If you want stable and hassle-free, that necessarily means you should stop keeping up with the minor version release notes. It’s just healthier to get an update every two years with lots of features.

    It’s the same desire for hassle-free that drove me away from Ubuntu. There just wasn’t (and probably still isn’t) a hassle-fee way of avoiding snaps.

  • What update frequency you want has nothing to do with the distro itself and everything to do with who you are as a person. I stuck to LTS when I was on Ubuntu because I don’t want to spend my life managing and studying my operating system on one of my several computers and OSs I use. A lot of people on Lemmy use things that require a lot of maintenance because maintaining the OS is the real hobby. If you’re gonna keep up with all the changes in 25.10, sounds like you’re the kind of person who should just go for it.

  • I use a 3D CAD software that once you switch to 3D mode, it makes things partially transparent, but it does so by scaling the opacity of the entire window. The end result is that transparent parts look correct when you have a black desktop background, but otherwise you’ll see what’s on the window behind it or the desktop background. Same issue when you get gaps between two sides or curves. I think no one noticed because they would usually launch it from a terminal, so they always had black backgrounds.