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Many people are unhappy about living with old bugs or missing features for years, even if you are not. And as a result we get a proliferation of many different
by fauigerzigerk 11y ago
Many people are unhappy about living with old bugs or missing features for years, even if you are not. And as a result we get a proliferation of many different update mechanisms on the same system. Some of them interactive and unscriptable. Some less than secure. This is not an ideal situation by any stretch.
It's not a huge problem either as long as Linux is used almost exclusively by professionals and mostly on servers.
- jordigh 11y agoYou know what people really hate? Change. Ask around how many people like it when Facebook changes its UI. Most don't. Sure, if there's a bug people hate living with the bug, but people really hate change even more.
- fauigerzigerk 11y agoI agree with you that this is a very strong sentiment. People don't want everything to change all the time underneath them, especially not the UI. But freezing everything for years puts too many people in a situation where they just have to upgrade for one reason or another. It's not always their choice and it's rarely a desire for change that makes them do it.