Ask HN: Is there a good LTS alternative to Ubuntu?

5 points by hhh 3y ago ↗ HN

I have lost all trust in Canonical, and in turn, Ubuntu. The push of the Snap store has been terrible, and the documentation for using them is even worse. I have to use a separate distribution or repo for installing Chrome in a containerized environment now, because Canonical has replace it with a shim telling you to install the snap.

Is anyone using a distribution with good long term support that has good support on x86 and ARM?

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techn00 3y ago ↗

RedHat, Alma Linux, Rocky Linux, OpenSUSE

bayindirh 3y ago ↗

If you want to stay in the Debian land, then Debian itself is also a worthy choice.

Debian 9 has moved to archives very recently, so you get ~6 years of security support, for free.

We use CentOS and Debian Stable on our production systems. We're moving to Alma on these CentOS systems slowly, since it has more enterprise support as far as we can see.

If you want something for Desktop use, try Fedora or Debian Testing. I'm using the latter for ~15 years IIRC (Installed 4.0 when it was testing, and continued updating it ever since).

kjs3 3y ago ↗

Same here. Considering going back to OpenSUSE which I used for quite a while and was generally happy with, but I'm looking at Alma Linux as $WORK uses a lot of RPM based linux.