I'm using Ubuntu 24.04 and found out the hard way that the Arduino IDE no longer supports Ubuntu. Unfortunately, the software download page is annoyingly vague with simply "Linux", instead of specific distros that are decided to be supported.
I am prepared to install the OS on a laptop devoted to Arduino, but I'm not wanting to waste time doing this randomly. I want to use the distro that the developers use to guarantee that it works seamlessly. It doesn't have to be mainstream - I've used some wacky and arcane systems over the years. I just don't want to be trying Debian, Slackware, Mandrake, Suse, Caldera, Fedora Core into the night and wearing out my SSD in the process.
I even decided to compile from source, but the documentation is insufficient in that regards, which is really too bad. Yarl did not work as suggested. From forums, I read that often the wrong (Ubuntu cmdtest) yarl is installed and ran, but even using the suggested strategy, I still had the cmdtest package installed. This really should not be a problem that a user must deal with these days. I feel like I've time traveled back to 2000 when Ports on FreeBSD was a house of dependency cards.
I really don't want to have to buy a bloated binary OS from a corporate source, just to enjoy participating with the free software akin to what I grew up with in the 1980s. Please share with us, not just here, but also on the webpage - what platforms are truly supported.