What are some things you wish you had known when switching to Linux?
What are some things you wish you had known when switching to Linux?
I start: the most important thing is not the desktop, it's the package manager.
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That even though you are running an LTS version of Ubuntu (e.g. Ubuntu 22.04), some packages that have arrived over a year ago on e.g. 23.10 will never arrive on 22.04.
Example: i3-wm 4.22 or up (https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=i3&searchon=names&suite=jammy§ion=all).
This is mine. This is fine for my server, where I want it to be mega stable and always up. I can always add other repos for the few packages that I need to be up to date for whatever reason (podman for me recently). But my daily driver needs quicker updates than that.
That's the whole point of an LTS distro. And it's why non-rolling distros for desktop OSes make no sense