• Ubuntu 22.04, codenamed Jammy Jellyfish, was released on 21 April 2022.

  • It was followed by Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu on 20 October 2022.

  • It was followed by Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur on 12 October 2023.

  • It was followed by Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffinnwas on 17 April 2025

  • It was followed by Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka on 9 October 2025

All Linux distros keep publishing new versions: Fedora, Mint, Debian...

Yet strangely, I don't notice any change. I'm just a normie user. It seems only computer nerds understand why the new versions are "game changers"

Apart from "increased security", what is actually the point of these releases?

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[–] 31 points 7 months ago (4 children)

There were some pretty big differences in windows 8. Not sure how you wouldn’t have noticed them.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah, this screams "the default browser is my operating system"/"chrome hasn't changed in 10 years why do I need to update my computer". Hell even assuming op is using their computer like a kiosk, you'd still have to notice a few differences. I'm partially blind and I can see lots of changes, lol.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    I mostly use LibreOffice, Firefox, qBitTorrent, VLC and the Terminal (sudo apt-get update)

    I don't notice much difference.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    That actually makes it more confusing. Unless you're on a rolling release distro , each major version will have a different repository of software - newer Linux Distro releases having newer programs.

    An example that's more visible from the standard user POV would be an Ubuntu user seeing GNOME being updated up a major feature release between Ubuntu versions. Without updating to the new version of Ubuntu, they'd only see maintenance patches and minor feature additions rather than anything gamechanging

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