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by kaba0 1694 days ago
This page was heavily criticized as it provides next to no reason on the recommendations.

Also, it’s really easy, just use OpenJDK (not adopt) packaged by your distro and stick to the latest version, which will continue to get security updates forever, will be much more performant, etc.

In the rare case you need to sit on an older version that is no longer getting security updates, OracleJDK may be preferred as they employ the actual people working on the JDK, and not just backporting commits from the most recent version. So eg. a deprecated feature may not get a security update in time with some other vendors, because it will not have commits from upstream.

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> Also, it’s really easy, just use OpenJDK (not adopt) packaged by your distro and stick to the latest version, which will continue to get security updates forever, will be much more performant, etc.

* Updates for the life of the distro version support policy.

I seriously doubt it'd be any more performant. They're all just doing a build of JDK from the same central repo.

I meant as in most recent JDK version. And openjdk-17 will be faster than 8