You must unmount the drive before formatting. And also know that formatting wipes the drive, so if there is anything on there you want to keep, back it up beforehand
It’s not required, it’s really a matter of preference. Many users, me included, prefer having access to the newest features and bug fixes right away, but that also means less time to test the code for new bugs.
For another example, look at Debian vs. Arch Linux and how they are released
some lemmy instances were having trouble with that for a while now. html used ampersand to encode special characters, and a regular ampersand gets encoded as &
Somehow, the decoding sometimes breaks, and we get to see it the way it is here
so, we got a racist slur, homophobic slur, anti feminism and a whole bunch of unironic uses of cuck and soy. you should really delete this, this is embarrassing