I saw last month that kernel 5.10 was approved. I wonder what kernel I was on with Linux Mint. I was some what surprised to see it at level 5.4. Still curious I check to see were my test installs of other Linux Distro was. MX (Debian) was at 5.8 and Manjaro (Arch) was at 5.9.
So after some reading, I found out that Debian has 3 levels. Stable, Testing, and unstable.
I found out that Manjaro (Arch Linux) is a rolling release.
I am assuming that with each kernel update that all the associated software is also updated. If that is correct:
- Manjaro at kernel 5.9 is very up to date with software. ------------------------> Rolling
- MX is stable and not too far behind at 5.8. ---------------------------------------> Stable
- Linux Mint at kernel 5.4 must be super stable and have very old software. —> LTS
So it seems to me that the major difference in Linux is the way the Distro is updated. What Distro you select is just the curtain dressing on a window to Linux.
The 3 differnt types of Linux are rolling, stable, and LTS. Again with rolling being most up-to-date, stable being only a little out of date, and LTS having the oldest yet most stable of all.
Comments welcome. I still learning. I could be all wrong on this break down.