Ah. I got the notice and noticed it hadn’t mentioned here yet, so I figured I’d toss it into offtopic as I was pretty sure something official would come down the pipe.
I don’t usually respond to them, but I do subscribe to the Lubuntu mailing lists. I’ll post something once in a blue moon. I’ve been subscribed for quite a while now, probably at least 5 years.
The next few releases should be short-term and then 22.04 will be LTS again, yes?
You were using Ubuntu before me then I only used GNU/Linux distros back then (ie. GNU in the name) so really Debian only. My first Ubuntu was 10.10 really so I was late, and missed the 9.10 karmic koala (being an aussie, I’d have liked to have started there!)
I started the Ubuntu career with Gutsy Gibbon (7.10), and dist-upgraded to Hardy Heron (8.04 LTS), and after that I have stayed with LTS versions for my main working computer. But I have tested most versions.
(Before Gutsy I tried Red Hat. This was when it was free of charge. At that time my main system was still running Windows. Before that I had been using Unix at work for big simulation programs.)
I was in the Windows land at work, so mostly used Windows at home. I treated Linux more as a hobby OS for quite a few years. My most frequently used distro would have been Mandrake and sometimes Knoppix. I’d also used Slackware and RedHat.
I got REALLY lucky and sold my business in 2007. I pretty much immediately started moving away from Windows.