When your favorite distribution doesn’t support your new hardware.
The LTS idea is pretty nice. It does aid users. It does help keep things stable for some. There is a problem though, maybe a few. The latest issue for me is that newer hardware comes out every year with the LTS typically staying in use for 2 or more years. If you end up having to buy a new computer (due to hardware failure) and it has new technology. The newer XC-1660G-UW92 computer that has a newer Intel UHD chipset for video and a newer SATA mode called "Intel". Using a distribution such as Linux Mint, even their latest version, you are going to be stuck on an old kernel. In this case 5.4. This kernel does not have the driver for either the SATA mode for the nvme…