Updates can come with breaking changes. Therefore, the way a distro handles its updates is perhaps more important than its update cadence:
Some choose to outright freeze packages and only come with security updates
Others have (almost) excessive testing to prevent breakage
Yet others employ rollbacks to ensure that the (eventual/inevitable) breakage can easily be deflected
Finally, there are distros that fall on a spectrum in regards to their more radical state management in hopes of minimizing breakage
(Though, I’m sure I’ve forgotten some other methods…)
And, of course, we find combinations of the above employed on the very same distro/system
Sorry for my ramblings, but with M$ sunsetting W10, I feel there’s a great opportunity for Linux to capitalize on this event. Yet, as your own experience clearly shows, the ‘default’ to recommend Mint/Ubuntu/Pop!_OS (or your average Ubuntu-based distro) isn’t always a guarantee for success. And were it not for your insistence on trying out different distros, we might have ‘lost’ you 😭. Hopefully we will ever-adapt as a community to better accommodate the needs of to-be M$-refugees.
I think this is pivotal!
Updates can come with breaking changes. Therefore, the way a distro handles its updates is perhaps more important than its update cadence:
Sorry for my ramblings, but with M$ sunsetting W10, I feel there’s a great opportunity for Linux to capitalize on this event. Yet, as your own experience clearly shows, the ‘default’ to recommend Mint/Ubuntu/Pop!_OS (or your average Ubuntu-based distro) isn’t always a guarantee for success. And were it not for your insistence on trying out different distros, we might have ‘lost’ you 😭. Hopefully we will ever-adapt as a community to better accommodate the needs of to-be M$-refugees.