Comment Another point for stability over features (Score 1) 202
The experience reminds me of why I seldom upgrade the software on my computer (or mobile devices for that matter) unless absolutely necessary. I had a lot of custom or 3rd-party software on my PC, and any major update to the core OS or libraries would threaten to break compatibility requiring an audit and possible rebuild of all those programs. After spending some time with Fedora I switched to a Red Hat Enterprise subscription specifically for its long-term support model; at least until RHEL 6.3, they worked to make sure that any updates to packages included in the distro were at least ABI backwards-compatible across minor version changes.