Alternative view: all distros have issues. It's better to go with the ones which clearly document the big issues in release notes. And possibly skip the initial big releases - use LTS after it gets some testing in public.

Canonical need to be clearer that the LTS releases are the real releases, and the interim 6-monthly releases are more like developer previews.

Humm, didn't think of them that way.

The planned release of Fedora 29 was just yesterday pushed back by a week due to blocker bugs. Personally, this sort of quality control is what makes me really appreciate Fedora.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-2...

Sample-size of one here, but I switched to Fedora a few years back after growing tired of Ubuntu's bugs. I haven't had any real issues since, it's just solid.

Here is a counter sample of one. I switched to Fedora from Ubuntu. Eventually switched back to Ubuntu once I got tired of my system breaking in some new way each time Fedora released a new version. Ubuntu has been rock solid for me.

I'll make it a sample-size of two, Fedora has been rock solid on my desktop and my Chromebook-turned-laptop. Relatively recent software but no noticable bugs. I am using Nouveau and Intel graphics drivers so I'm not sure what it's like if you want Nvidia's proprietary stuff or AMDs, but for me it's great.

Sample-size of one here, but I switched to Fedora a few years back after growing tired of Ubuntu lagging with Wayland. I haven't had any real issues since, but I really wanted ZFS so I’m back on Ubuntu.

As quantummkv says, you could go for Ubuntu Long Term Support, or give 18.10 a go after a while when these bugs have been ironed out. No one's forcing an immediate adoption of the Short Term Support version, and it functions as a testing ground for the next LTS anyway.

My concern and question should be more clear. I'm already bummed that Ubuntu out-of-box apps Firefox/Thunderbird have already in the LTS dumb bugs.

* Thunderbird can't display subjects with emojis correctly (a distro issue). * Firefox (actually a Gnome issue) trying to login on lastpass/onepass is broken.

In both cases the issues aren't new and haven't enough priority to be fixed which I think it's weird.

The harsh reality is that every distribution has these last-minute creepers. More user engagement would help here, much more than crying for the next distro.

Use whatever you like since each has their own policies for a reason that makes sense IMHO.

If you do not care for professional/commercial use cases, install Arch Linux. It almost never breaks (zero times for me in six years of use) and always has the latest and gives you stuff mostly unmodified (as in just patching needed to make it run somehow).

I would recommend Manjaro. Arch based, updates come after two weeks of testing by the developers. It is even possible to install on f2fs. Never broke for me.

Is that realistic to test thousands of packages in two weeks? Automated build tests are everywhere anyway and more than that is not done for Manjaro as well.

The real testers here are probably Arch users having access to these updates weeks earlier and reporting bugs and fixing them.

Install a LTS versions 6 months after it is released, the .1 release

Depends what you want. If you like Debian based distros, maybe just use Debian?

Debian Stretch (see my separate post here for more info)

Heh, I've been running Cosmic for a month or so now and come across the VPN bug frequently. I find disconnecting and reconnecting to the wi-fi network resolves it. Other than that it's been very solid for me on my Dell XPS 15 9560.

18.04 has the same VPN bug.

I railed aganinst Red Hat and Fedora for years, then gave in to peer pressure eventually - it's been an extremely pleasant and productive experience.

Considering the workstation, server and atomic types in the fedora page I'm not sure about using it for desktop/home usage.

Ubuntu LTS? Fedora?