On 1604 now, should I update to 1710 or wait for 1804?

Well I read 17.10 is more about the cloud Linux and not what Ubuntu used to be as the desktop Linux. But as long as you are getting security updates why bother IMO

@gitpush been using Linux only a few months as my desktop. Looking around there seems to be no benificial reason to move to mint or elementary and what not. Stuck gnome on already anyway, don't like kde and while budgie was nice for some it kept making vscode crash and I was lazy to debug that.

If you're building a work machine, stick with LTS releases. For home, who cares? Installing Ubuntu is like breakfast.

@farkaskid on the contrary - for work it shouldn't be LTS. Developers should develop on the latest stack.

@AndSoWeCode that makes no sense really, your machines os will never, ever even closely relate to what's on the server, hence working in docker containers.

That reasoning is no justification for either LTS or STS.

While I suspect an LTS is probably more stable and reliable, would make sense in a work environment to use something less prone to potential random failure, like windows.

It will be another 8 years before NASA upgrade to the hardware I got in my laptop. Lol

@AndSoWeCode LTS releases are supposed to be more stable. You don't want to fix your system while a deadline is hanging on your head.

Still I do get what you are saying but still it's Ubuntu. It's not going to be a massive update.

And even if someone is concerned with testing on the latest kernel features, a rolling release would be a better choice.

@farkaskid I wasted more time trying to make newer software to run on LTS, than fixing non-LTS systems.

Non-LTS systems work really well. The only troubles that I ever had hat to do with some in-house enterprise level software that was written very bad, plus some conflicts with QT versions

@RTRMS if it comes to me I'd upgrade to latest version unless you are using stuff like Docker & DotNet core, I remember when I first upgraded to 17.04 on an ubuntu server, dotnet core started throwing issues but it was solved in a month or so

@gitpush just docker, the windows guys use core, I just do the front end all I really need is vscode and Node.

@RTRMS then there is no trouble upgrading why not give it a try?

Update to 1709 🤣