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1. thurloat 📌 (thurloat@mastodon.club)'s status on Friday, 27-Apr-2018 18:45:10 EDT thurloat 📌

   Wew, new Ubuntu LTS... I stopped using Ubuntu years ago. Let me recount the ways it has stricken me.

   broken packages 🙁
   uniquely maintained patches from upstream ☹
   massive test suites disabled 😦
   hidden bugs from said patches and disabled suites 😢
   get stuck on LTS because upgrades are a nightmare. 😭

   I'm literally still running 12.04 on a (non-web facing) server somewhere because there's no upgrade path without a full rebuild.

   1. Michela (michela@mastodon.club)'s status on Saturday, 28-Apr-2018 03:33:27 EDT Michela

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      @thurloat I ran Ubuntu for years, until I couldn't handle the mess anymore. I switched to Fedora KDE spin and never looked back.

      I run CentOS (and some Fedora) on servers (I've pretty much always run mostly Red Hat based servers).

      The system is amazingly solid and refined. I only had one minor problem with it on my laptop in the last three years.

      Upgrades are incredibly smooth on Fedora -- not one broken system so far!