[ii41]

I was once forced to use older (but not deprecated) LTS Ubuntu and I hated it. New software come out and you're gonna want to use them (often forced to use them), and they of course use newer dependencies. I had to do the distribution maintainer job and package a bunch of software myself.

[marssaxman]

What sort of work do you do?

I only use LTS distributions, and this is not a problem I have encountered, so I wonder what accounts for the difference in our experiences.

[spott]

I think this depends on how they are used.

If you are leaning on the package manager for managing things like Python, then they are really annoying.

If you are just skipping that and using something like UV, then you won’t care that LTS only has python 3.9 or similar.

If you are trying to use them interactively, then they can be annoying because everything new isn’t available. If you are using them as a server for running pre-packaged code, then they are fine.