6th April 2017, 3:27
Thanks for your feedback. Its very helpful. I really like the idea of the NEON LTS, but I have concerns about those kinds of things. I guess a big part of my concern is the fact that Neon goes out of the way to say they are not a distro. But then they also go out of their way to provide an OEM release. I don't get it. If they are not a distro whey are they providing a release geared towards OEMs to preinstall on hardware? So I figured they must be a stable distro. It seems to me that KDE really needs to figure out what Neon is and what it isn't. The more I look into it, the more it starts to look like Neon should really be considered a base to build a distro on top of. Just like Maui is doing.
I'm coming from a long line of Debian Stable distros (Xandros>Mepis>SolydK) so I hate to give up my stability. But lately I've grown tired of always having old software. Or software that might have a bug that won't be fixed because its a stable (non changing) release. So I thought I would venture into the world of ubuntu and look for something with newer software and a predicable release schedule, but still be a stable system (Stable as in not crashing. Not stable as in never changing.) So I'm shopping around to see what I like.
As I mentioned, I love the idea of Neon LTS. It sounds perfect. A stable base, a desktop that is stable and gets bug fixes, and newer software. But I wonder how well its been tested. And how crash free can it be if other components are always changing. I've been down the rolling release road already too and that didn't meet my needs. So I'm trying to find the right balance between stable and updates.
I'm coming from a long line of Debian Stable distros (Xandros>Mepis>SolydK) so I hate to give up my stability. But lately I've grown tired of always having old software. Or software that might have a bug that won't be fixed because its a stable (non changing) release. So I thought I would venture into the world of ubuntu and look for something with newer software and a predicable release schedule, but still be a stable system (Stable as in not crashing. Not stable as in never changing.) So I'm shopping around to see what I like.
As I mentioned, I love the idea of Neon LTS. It sounds perfect. A stable base, a desktop that is stable and gets bug fixes, and newer software. But I wonder how well its been tested. And how crash free can it be if other components are always changing. I've been down the rolling release road already too and that didn't meet my needs. So I'm trying to find the right balance between stable and updates.