Me, coder, student, cant afford mid range PCs, interested in learning computers, gamer, not professional. What about you guys?
Me, coder, student, cant afford mid range PCs, interested in learning computers, gamer, not professional. What about you guys?
As opposed to forcing updates that break basic functionality?
Anyway, it’s certainly not common to do no upgrading, just not mindlessly pushing every single new release when you don’t need it (ie, not a major security fix or something). Which is a good thing if you value stability in your system, no matter what software you’re running. The ones dealing with the BitLocker locked company laptops right now after the last Windows update kerfuffle could probably tell you all about it. It’s a lesson hard won by neophyte system admins.
What OS is forcing updates? -Not Windows. Desktop Linux users are so self-blinding that they ignore the main reason that they end up distro-hopping. (The never ending ‘
yourmy faultyouI chose the wrong distro’ excuse.)Literally in the last month or so Windows pushed an update that messed up the BitLocker check and locked a ton of company laptops . I’d point out this was also a major security update.
But at least we agree updating for the sake of updating is bad policy on any software if you care about stability, so we can set that argument aside now, yes?
For this new argument you’ve moved to: Distro hopping is for fun for people who like tinkering with computers. You wouldn’t get it. It’s not for everyone, plenty of people just pick a long term support release and call it day.