Re: Which Linux distribution would you use now?

Quote from: ETFbitcoin on Today at 09:21:53 AM

You need to recheck these pages, https://xubuntu.org/download/ and https://kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/. Both offer still offer LTS version. But unlike Ubuntu which has 5 years support (10 years if you subscribe to Ubuntu Pro), those distro only receive 3 years support.

Right, I messed up. The LTS versions actually have 3 years support, but it's still less than the 5 years I can get out of the main Ubuntu distro. (And this is confirmed here.)

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At least for basic printing, CUPS[1] does the jobs wgere you don't have to use closed-source driver/firmware.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting

It's not just printing, so many things have been messed up, for years. Audio, function key buttons, fingerprint readers, USB modems, and especially video cards all have major problems inside their open source driver implementations.

Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 09:31:31 AM

You can just install Xfce on Ubuntu and still get 5 years LTS, right? The few GB size difference for having some unused software on your system shouldn't matter compared to the size of the blockchain.

Correct, but as you can see in the link I shared, all packages in the repository called main are supported for 5 years. XFCE Desktop is not inside that repository, so it gets support for 3 years.