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I have a colleague. She doesn’t like Windows (more like she doesn’t like MS spying), has a laptop with Ubuntu, but she also doesn’t like change.
This put her in weird situation, when she still has PC with Windows 7, outdated firefox and complains youtube is borked all the time. And once she moves to laptop, there’s old Ubuntu (more than couple major releases old) which was never updated, because “she liked it that way”. Guess what? Similar problems.
I told her many times that if she wanted carefree linux experience, she should update it once in a while, there’s no evil MS behind it, but no. She never updates because reasons. She rather visit some obscure website that presents some terminal commands she doean’t understand, but copy them over anyway and voila… the linux is in even worse state than before.
Microsoft taught people to distrust updates because they break shit and don’t ask if you want them or not.
That leads a lot of people to being “scared” of updates, and Linux updates literally constantly (a good thing).
Further, Ubuntu as well as others have moved towards phased rollouts, to ensure new versions don’t break things. I constantly have updates say “These updates have been held back due to phasing” which is intended to save me from any trouble if the small number of users who they have phased the updates to start having issues. Easier to roll back and fix for a small number of users as opposed to the whole world.
Linux doesn’t just handle updates better, but they’ve continued to grow and change how they handle updates to make them better for end-users long-term.
Breaking Microsoft ingrained habits is hard for some people.
I’m a lazy fuck. That’s why I use openSUSE Tumbleweed myself that has snapper preconfigured. I roll updates once I have time/will, sometimes twice a week, sometimes multiple months between. It’s fucking solid! And even if it breaks, it’s couple minutes to get it back to working condition and then I wait a week and next update is fine. This is the best!
I’m lazy and old so I’m doing it the least efficient way by just putting all updates into a daily cronjob (or doing updates on reboot). Much more modern ways to handling it than the crontab, but I too, am lazy.
I have a colleague. She doesn’t like Windows (more like she doesn’t like MS spying), has a laptop with Ubuntu, but she also doesn’t like change.
This put her in weird situation, when she still has PC with Windows 7, outdated firefox and complains youtube is borked all the time. And once she moves to laptop, there’s old Ubuntu (more than couple major releases old) which was never updated, because “she liked it that way”. Guess what? Similar problems.
I told her many times that if she wanted carefree linux experience, she should update it once in a while, there’s no evil MS behind it, but no. She never updates because reasons. She rather visit some obscure website that presents some terminal commands she doean’t understand, but copy them over anyway and voila… the linux is in even worse state than before.
That’s why linux is not hotfix for everything.
Microsoft taught people to distrust updates because they break shit and don’t ask if you want them or not.
That leads a lot of people to being “scared” of updates, and Linux updates literally constantly (a good thing).
Further, Ubuntu as well as others have moved towards phased rollouts, to ensure new versions don’t break things. I constantly have updates say “These updates have been held back due to phasing” which is intended to save me from any trouble if the small number of users who they have phased the updates to start having issues. Easier to roll back and fix for a small number of users as opposed to the whole world.
Linux doesn’t just handle updates better, but they’ve continued to grow and change how they handle updates to make them better for end-users long-term.
Breaking Microsoft ingrained habits is hard for some people.
I’m a lazy fuck. That’s why I use openSUSE Tumbleweed myself that has snapper preconfigured. I roll updates once I have time/will, sometimes twice a week, sometimes multiple months between. It’s fucking solid! And even if it breaks, it’s couple minutes to get it back to working condition and then I wait a week and next update is fine. This is the best!
I’m lazy and old so I’m doing it the least efficient way by just putting all updates into a daily cronjob (or doing updates on reboot). Much more modern ways to handling it than the crontab, but I too, am lazy.
So basically, people are stupid?
Not stupid, she’s definitely not stupid. It’s that everyone has their own quirks maybe? And different expectations.