All even year .04 are LTS versions in Ubuntu. They get Five years of support from Ubuntu community and Canonical Inc..
LTS versions - Every even year April - 5 years of support from then.
Non - LTS versions - Every 6 months on April/October except the LTS cycle - 9 months of support from then.
If you want a more stabler smooth system LTS versions are recommended. For gaming purposes too this applies. But you would be better of with newer releases on this one. Mesa and Kernel updates mostly improve with latest versions.
For Testing out the current live test build you can go here:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ (updated daily)
Currently, for Nvidia gamers on Ubuntu they can use this ppa to get their driver updates easily,
LTS versions - Every even year April - 5 years of support from then.
Non - LTS versions - Every 6 months on April/October except the LTS cycle - 9 months of support from then.
If you want a more stabler smooth system LTS versions are recommended. For gaming purposes too this applies. But you would be better of with newer releases on this one. Mesa and Kernel updates mostly improve with latest versions.
For Testing out the current live test build you can go here:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ (updated daily)
Currently, for Nvidia gamers on Ubuntu they can use this ppa to get their driver updates easily,
To add the PPA run the following in a new Terminal window:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa && sudo apt-get update
To undo this addition of ppa you can use the ppa-purge command. Not always does a driver update in Linux or any other OS for that matter goes smooth so research online forums before doing your graphic driver update!
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