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 ?

  • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show
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    4 hours ago

    I use a rolling release for mainly 3 reasons.

    1. Faster access to new (shiny) software/applications. Flatpak and the like could solve this for LTS distros.
    2. Security updates come faster and smoother.
    3. Less chance of an update breaking things. Lots of small and frequent updates, instead of rare and large update packs/stacks.