No. LTS is much more prone to breakage. LTS means you're porting yesterdays's security patches onto code that has been abandoned five years ago. And usually you have package maintainers doing this, not actual software developers.
There's no reason to run LTS unless for corporate insanity purposes.
> And usually you have package maintainers doing this, not actual software developers.
This is a weird thing to say. The package maintainers doing substantive backporting work for any distribution absolutely are actual developers.
> There's no reason to run LTS unless for corporate insanity purposes.
LTS releases also give you stability of behavior, which can be valuable even outside of corporate environments.
Plus six months is really short. There's plenty of space between that and the full lifecycle length of a major RHEL release, or an Ubuntu LTS. NixOS releases that lasted two years would be awesome.
I'd love to try to use a more long-term NixOS release for a downstream project, if it ever got the kind of corporate backing necessary to sustain that kind of release.
> The package maintainers doing substantive backporting work for any distribution absolutely are actual developers.
The maintainers doing the backporting are affiliated with the distro rather than being developers of the software they're doing backports for. That is a big distinction because it determines who has to incur the costs of compensating them/recruiting them to volunteer
Oh! On this interpretation, the GP comment is basically missing an instance of the definite article there:
> And usually you only have package maintainers doing this, not the actual developers.
It's not super unusual for the maintainers of some program's packages in several distros to also be core developers of the project, but yeah, that's a good point.
There's no reason to run LTS unless for corporate insanity purposes.