Comment 1169 for bug 1

I have no personal problems with tweaking my own Linux installation. However I also install and manage the Linux installation of around a dozen people in my family, extended family etc. I prefer that management to be limited to adding a script that keeps the computer upgraded.

Average Joe do not want a choice. They want a stable OS with regular patches. They do not want to do full system updates or even make an active decision when updates is around. My current solution for this is that i use the LTS version and have a script that updates the system on every start-up. I also have a post-install script that apt-gets everything that my users usually want.

LTS is the only solution to this. Do not speak about a choice because there is no choice. The non-LTS version is completely unusable in this scenario. Average Joe is not interested in doing a full system upgrade every 6 month. Also Average Joe is not interested in a year old browser. This is a deadlock. There is no arguments in why Average Joe should be forced to have either one or another. Upgrading the browser does not make the OS unstable, even if it may make the browser temporarily unstable. There is however good reasons to be very conservative about kernel and library updates.

And to be honest, this is the number one reason that Ubuntu is not installed on computers you buy in the store. A edgy distribution is not acceptable from a support perspective, and a super-conservative distribution like LTS is not acceptable from a user perspective.

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