Officially you are right, they release it as a stable OS after a few weeks of beta's.
Unofficially any serious user knows to stick to LTS for any production environment. This is by far the most common versions I encounter in the wild and on customer deployment from my experience.
In fact I don't think I ever saw someone using a non-LTS version.
Canonical certainly has these stats? Or someone operating update mirror could infer them? I'd be curious what the real world usage of different Ubuntu versions actually are.
Unofficially any serious user knows to stick to LTS for any production environment. This is by far the most common versions I encounter in the wild and on customer deployment from my experience.
In fact I don't think I ever saw someone using a non-LTS version.
Canonical certainly has these stats? Or someone operating update mirror could infer them? I'd be curious what the real world usage of different Ubuntu versions actually are.