• Magnum, P.I.@infosec.pub
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    14 days ago

    You have been using Linux for the past 30 years but you are shocked that updates can break things? What?

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      14 days ago

      It happened once in the last ten years (thanks Nvidia). But I just rolled back to my previous btrfs snapshot and kept on computing until it was fixed a day or two later.

      But forced breaking updates the first Tuesday of every month sounds like a really bad user experience.

      Things were different back in the 90s before loadable kernel modules. Online updates weren’t much of a thing, either. You’d just install that new slackware release over your old root partition anyway.

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          14 days ago

          I have the memory of a goldfish with poor memory. I can’t recall any other big breaks in the last 20. I’m sure there’s been some since, but trivial enough to fix and forget about.

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      14 days ago

      Yeah no OS is immune to broken stuff. Sigh, I can’t figure out how to fix my Linux phone after being dumb enough to try to install vs code for classes. Can’t upgrade to the next version because of it.