Those are valid points, but windows has the exact same issues. Updates break stuff so often that many people have just adopted a habit to never update if they need to rely on their machines. The same is true for me, I spent many hours trying to find a version of the nvidia driver that has no issues.
True. The company I work for is starting to get a little more proactive with OS updates and I can’t tell if it’s good or bad. On the one hand, we get some new features. On the other hand, things are always broken… but things have always been broken because they load them up with so much security software that they fail to function. So I’m not sure if they’re more or less broken than usual, lol.
My company recently enabled windows defender’s ASR and it caused a shitload of issues, so they had to disable it again for half the company.
Windows also does shit like turning up my volume all the time and some update broke lightshot in a weird way where some people who had it installed before the update can use it, but when you install it after the update, it just won’t launch. This crap is impossible to troubleshoot.
Meanwhile on Linux, I can fix pretty much everything with a bit of googling and if I can’t figure it out, I can post on the arch forums and get help for free, usually very quickly and by people who really know their shit.
Isn’t that more of a ‘stable distro’ issue tho? When you run yay every other day you’ll only ever have a dozen packages updating which makes it easy to troubleshoot any breakage.
Compare that to distros that upgrade every 6 months with hundreds of packages all at once. I’d say that carries a much bigger risk of something going wrong. I used to do a fresh install of Ubuntu with every new release purely to avoid the inevitable issues of apt upgrades.
It depends on how often you’re running the update. If you’re doing it everyday, it won’t be much, but you’re risk is then daily instead of every 6 months. If you have a deadline to hit, are you going to risk doing an update before you start? Even if the risk is small with 12 packages, if one of them causes an issue, it will throw off your timeline for your other project. If you have deadlines every day/week, updates could get put off for a long time… to the point where you might as well run a more stable distro and can plan the bigger upgrades. It really depends on the user’s needs.
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Those are valid points, but windows has the exact same issues. Updates break stuff so often that many people have just adopted a habit to never update if they need to rely on their machines. The same is true for me, I spent many hours trying to find a version of the nvidia driver that has no issues.
True. The company I work for is starting to get a little more proactive with OS updates and I can’t tell if it’s good or bad. On the one hand, we get some new features. On the other hand, things are always broken… but things have always been broken because they load them up with so much security software that they fail to function. So I’m not sure if they’re more or less broken than usual, lol.
My company recently enabled windows defender’s ASR and it caused a shitload of issues, so they had to disable it again for half the company.
Windows also does shit like turning up my volume all the time and some update broke lightshot in a weird way where some people who had it installed before the update can use it, but when you install it after the update, it just won’t launch. This crap is impossible to troubleshoot.
Meanwhile on Linux, I can fix pretty much everything with a bit of googling and if I can’t figure it out, I can post on the arch forums and get help for free, usually very quickly and by people who really know their shit.
Isn’t that more of a ‘stable distro’ issue tho? When you run yay every other day you’ll only ever have a dozen packages updating which makes it easy to troubleshoot any breakage.
Compare that to distros that upgrade every 6 months with hundreds of packages all at once. I’d say that carries a much bigger risk of something going wrong. I used to do a fresh install of Ubuntu with every new release purely to avoid the inevitable issues of apt upgrades.
It depends on how often you’re running the update. If you’re doing it everyday, it won’t be much, but you’re risk is then daily instead of every 6 months. If you have a deadline to hit, are you going to risk doing an update before you start? Even if the risk is small with 12 packages, if one of them causes an issue, it will throw off your timeline for your other project. If you have deadlines every day/week, updates could get put off for a long time… to the point where you might as well run a more stable distro and can plan the bigger upgrades. It really depends on the user’s needs.