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Do people with newer pcs prefer rolling release? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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What exactly is the point of rolling release? My pc (well, the cpu) is 15 years old, I dont need bleeding edge updates. Or is it for security ?

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[–] 2 points 9 months ago

Rolling vs. point release is not about whether a breaking change happens or not but when.

With rolling, breaking changes could happen at any time (even when inconvenient) but are smaller and spread out.
With point release, you get a big chunk of breaking changes all at once but at predictable points in time, usually with migration windows.

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