Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Still remember in 2006, went to a local internet cafe in rural India to fill out the form for requesting Ubuntu on a CD, and weeks or months later postman delivered it. It worked perfectly on the cheap laptop I had, in the first attempt.

The experience is still top notch. Can't thank Ubuntu team enough.

Now I keep a USB stick with Ubuntu image all the time as a Swiss army knife for fixing computers.

FYI (because I've been surprised several people I expected to know this didn't recently):

The number versions represent the year and month of the release: 22.04 was released late April 2022. The next stable will come out in late April 2024, and the next, I dunno, Short Term (?) 22.10 release will come out in October.

Out of curiosity, if you take a default 22.04 desktop install, how many snaps are installed?

Upgraded to it via do-release-upgrade -d and for the most part it went smooth. I had to reinstall pulseaudio and some bluetooth connection profiles as wireless headphones completely broke - they would connect twice in a row with failing audio (thus reinstall pulseaudio), then at some point, they wouldn't connect at all (thus reinstall bluetooth connection profile).

Previous upgrades didn't had such problems. This with the KDE desktop on a desktop machine running old Ryzen.

when windows 11 gets trashy, linux becomes mature. As a developer I dont see why I should stay on windows.