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Ubuntu 22.04, codenamed Jammy Jellyfish, was released on 21 April 2022.
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It was followed by Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu on 20 October 2022.
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It was followed by Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur on 12 October 2023.
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It was followed by Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffinnwas on 17 April 2025
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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 actually 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?
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.
I mostly use LibreOffice, Firefox, qBitTorrent, VLC and the Terminal.
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