That’s not an accurate portrayal of anything though. You’re implying risk management means you’re accepting that the system sucks and the only way to keep it running is to have a backup system.
That’s not what anyone is doing. They are acknowledging the flawed nature of software and humanity in general and guarding against the consequences of this. It’s being smart. Name one distro that has never broken with updates? You cannot because there obviously couldn’t exist one.
Okay what distros are we talking about? What’s an example of an unreliable one and what’s a reliable one?
I think it’s much more complicated than this. Honestly there’s a reason it took decades for Linux distros in general to get as stable as they are today. It’s really really hard to build an operating system.
I think a better analogy for installing updates on linux would be riding a motorcycle. Accidents happen all the time. They’re bound to, be prepared. Just because you can ride for 30 years unscathed doesn’t mean you can take that for granted.
I might be confused. I thought that the distro itself was made up of packages and that’s what all updates did: update various packages bundled with the distro (plus any you installed yourself)
Ya know, this is super interesting you mention Arch. The only person I’ve known IRL who uses and loves Arch champions it hardcore but with the caveat that you have to be okay with things breaking due to the rolling release model. Due to his guidance I have avoided arch specifically. I’ve been running Ubuntu based distros a couple of years and only had issues with updates breaking things like 2 times… Both of which didn’t require a wipe or anything.
What you wrote and what I’m reading about openSuse leap sound excellent. My only concern is support. Just about all the apps and tools I use are well supported on Ubuntu based systems but I don’t recall seeing nearly as much support for rpm based oses, including open suse . What’s your experience? If you go to install just any random software you just heard about, how well does it typically go getting it installed/working?
So you’re implying there exists a distro that is perfect and never breaks anything? Sounds like denial. Having time shift in place is risk management and says nothing about the distro, which btw all are imperfect and may break eventually. Kinda confused how one can run Linux and be unaware of how complex and fallible ALL software is.
Interesting, I feel like this describes what windows itself does to a pc
It’s definitely not normal to lose wifi working drivers with an update. I would say it’s very rare in fact. As far as what you’re saying takes ten seconds on windows, no it doesn’t. You would still need to run as administrator and (I think) type your password, which probably takes longer than opening a terminal and typing sudo
One particular over privileged couple of people don’t catch my eye at all for any other reason either, except when they are spreading hate or something like that. Weird to think everyone does notice or care what celebrities do. I honestly have no idea who his wife is or why I would know she’s abused.
I so agree. I admit there are a few celebrities that I like so much that I’d be interested in their life story a bit, but I’m absolutely not following news about them or really even interested in their kids or who they married. Even though those things are a part of them, I would be interested in their earlier life more – how did they become this person? Having said that, most biographies I have read have been snoozefests, sadly. Even when the person is insanely fascinating in an interview about their work, hearing about how they spent their summer in 1968 isn’t usually the most riveting story…
Icy hot is one of the shittiest products ever in my experience. I used it normally once and it barely had an effect. So I used more and basically got a severe chemical burn.
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