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Anyone coming from a development background will entirely get the idea of stable releases. 23.10 or 24.04 are just rolling releases of a stable distro. It's the production ready version. You can choose to opt-in to the development updates at the risk that your system might be slightly more unstable, but that's not a decision that a casual user should consider.
The version numbers on Ubuntu specifically, are just dates. 23.10 is the stable release from October, 2023. That's all it is and there's really no point in thinking about it deeper than that. It's a date, not really a version number.
Isn't that the point, people outside of tech-people will be confused and it harms the adoption by the greater masses.
Yeah, I'm saying that I agree that version numbers are harmful to mass adoption and I go on to explain that it's not really a version number at least in Ubuntu, but a "YY.MM" formatted date. I think making that more clear would help people that are unfamiliar with versioning and development.
Ah yeah that’s reasonable. But it’s gonna be an uphill battle against every other product out there on the market that influences users.
Version numbers are not that hard to wrap your head around. Aside from that, do you really think people care that much about version numbers?
Yes I think people think bigger number is better.
Think about how smart the median person is and now wonder about the lower half.
That's kinda what I meant. I don't think those people will even look at version numbers tbh. They'll probably just click update, let it install and that's it.
I don't think non-LTS Ubuntu releases are technically rolling releases. They are more like shorter supported snapshots.