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If you are scared of updates breaking stuff, Linux is not the best choice either. Updates to OS regularly breaks graphics and Wi-Fi drivers for me; after every
by runn1ng 10y ago
If you are scared of updates breaking stuff, Linux is not the best choice either.
Updates to OS regularly breaks graphics and Wi-Fi drivers for me; after every second update I have to solve "why is everything black" and "why are all videos green".
Of all the things I disliked on OS X when I moved to Linux, instability with updates is even worse here.
- wtracy 10y agoThis depends a lot on which distribution you go with. Gentoo is notorious for regularly breaking things. Debian has a reputation for constantly being two years out of date because because of their QA process. Ubuntu is somewhere in between, though lately it has been leaning towards the "Let's change everything every six months!" end of the spectrum. You can mitigate this a bit by sticking to their LTS releases, though. (This is what I'm doing currently.)
- runn1ng 10y agoYeah, I am at ubuntu, since that seemed like the easiest distro to get started, but now I am afraid of switching and setting up all the graphic drivers again. (and working around bugs in Network Manager again. Come on guys, it's software with which people connect to Internet, why is so important thing so buggy.)
- eloisant 10y agoJust stick with Ubuntu LTS releases. I barely see the difference with newer releases anyway, most of the innovation I care is on the web or in high-level applications that run on LTS.