Comment 58 for bug 212098

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Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo) wrote :

Jessie, for the sake of the argument, know that there are people like me who WILL stay on 8.04 until the next LTS release. 8.04 "mostly works", or, at least, its bugs are known to me. That is the distro/version that I am installing on people's computers when I don't want to break them and maintain them every darn 6 months. For a funnier explanation, take a look at http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/06/evolution-of-ubuntu-user.html , I am currently located at step #5. I don't want to start over my personal Q.A. process over again in 6 months (in this case, 1 month for 8.10). And I figure out that by the next LTS release, epiphany webkit, gdm and the boot time will have attained the kind of reliability I expect.

This was a short explanation of why some people care more than others about bugs that affect Long Term Support releases.