ubuntu does two releases in a year, one in april (26.04) and one in october (26.10 on october 15)
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-26-04-1-lts-released/8...
I had the prompt on my work machine this morning which was previously running 24.04.x and is now on 26.04.1.
That's great, but they are also intending to comply with the OS-level age verification [1]. Initial implementations will somehow be privacy protecting, but eventually the temptation to tie a specific person to an OS fingerprint will become too great.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1rk4fj7/ubun...
One can choose any Linux distro that has good installation and operator's instructions, such as Arch, Gentoo, Debian, Red Hat, etc, etc, etc, and follow those instructions.
It might be hard for some youngsters and hypesters to believe, but novices were installing and operating Linux on their home computers long before LLM research even began.
What I don't like about Ubuntu is the halfsnap, half apt nonsense.
26.04 is an LTS release, 26.10 will not be.
I would frame this the other way around. Why would anyone pick any other distro over Debian or Ubuntu?
I appreciate that they're running a business, but the Fedora/RHEL split feels much cleaner, and Fedora is my current go-to in instances where I used to reach for Ubuntu. (Or I use Debian, for headless/server setups)
While most data loss severity bugs reported in the 25.10 round of testing have been resolved, the sheer volume of unexpected breakage suggests that there are more to be discovered. Most impacted are unit tests and shell scripts that expect some utility to return syscall errors in stderr and propagate it to a non-zero exit code, where on Ubuntu 26.04 they might silently swallow (apparent, partial or complete) failure to execute the requested action.
Other machines in the house are Mint.
pelagicAustral•38m ago