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by dxxvi 2603 days ago
Lucky you because there's an OS that tweaks everything to your liking. The fact that Pop!_OS is not a rolling distro might be a big - for many people.
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Fair point. I enjoy rolling release model too. Some times I hope Pop!_OS and Elementary were not based on Ubuntu at the first place.
Rolling distributions simply do not provide the stability for serious production environments.
Is a desktop a production environment?
Time is always money one way or another. Time is ever so precious.

Even if you disagree, if a pentester uses Kali Linux (a Debian-based rolling release distribution), and they get paid for it, yes. Even then, Kali Linux regularly breaks, so a solution is to run it on VMs with snapshots (or communicate to each other when it breaks, or use a microSD card for a working version).

There's also a clear advantage: you get the newest versions of software much quicker than an OS which updates every half year (or a LTS version which gets updated less often).

If you make your money using your desktop, then yes it is.