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[+] -18 points 7 months ago (15 children)

There should be a law against OS updates more frequent than once a month

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  • [–] 30 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    I mean, just use any stable distro and you can live that life. Arch is good for its own reasons precisely because it's this way.

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  • [+] -30 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Linux guy whipping out the "Actually, it's a feature not a bug" line is very funny.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Yeah I mean, this is the benefit of the fragmentation. If you don't want to update all the time, you just use a different distro. I know I do, I've run Linux for 21 years now and never once run Arch because I don't want what it does, but we're still on the same team, and the things they do benefit me nonetheless. There are drawbacks to the fragmentation, but this is one of the benefits.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    As a rescent convert coming from Ubuntu to cachy os, the update cadence of an arch ibased distro, is something to get used to. It is also one of the main reasons behind experimenting with it. I am.using ubutntu and debian for work related workloads, where stabiloty is more important than having.the latest software. For personal use and playing around, cachy has been awesome. You control your own cadence.with updates. I am doing weekly at the moment, or whenever I need some new piece of software.Β 

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    This is not applicable to arch tho

    Each package is updated independently, you pull updates whenever you feel like it, be that monthly or every five minutes

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    Well... with Arch it's unsafe to install new software to a system that isn't up to date at least semi-recently. But you really only need to update as often as you install new things. Or more often if you want to.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    What if your favourite game 1 receives an update and your favourite game 2 gets one a couple of days later. Do you wait the month to play game 2?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    If I haven't beaten game one, it'll be more than a month.

    But synchronizing patch releases so you're not bombarded with notifications would be nice, yes.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Ah yes, reading my monthly blob of my 900 and still growing games library updates, marvelous. Might need a couple of days to just get halfway through.

    And fuck the indie games that relies on direct user feedback by the way, those pesky weekly updates! Stop trying making quality games, folks, someone here is bothered by a notification.

    Oh no the lastest update made the game crash on launch? Well, wait for next month patch then, we wouldn't dare pushing an update notification, that would be horrendous!

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