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yeah this is like someone complaining their petrol car keeps gumming up because they only start it every 2 years.
by nikau 4y ago
yeah this is like someone complaining their petrol car keeps gumming up because they only start it every 2 years.
- rascul 4y agoI have a box with openSUSE that hasn't been powered on in a couple years. If I plugged it in and powered it on today, I could use it right away with none of the crap that has been described in the article. Of course I would want to do an upgrade in due time, but that's on me, and won't make the system unusable.
- CoolCold 4y agoWe can make a conclusion on this case being seen by Microsoft as non meaningful on average and from my understanding for those who care, they have options to be applied by your Corp IT team to enforce the needed type of policy. Probably I'd do the same - professionalls have way to configure system, non-pros better be guided/enforced a bit
- matheusmoreira 4y agoI have Linux installed on my laptop. It's always ready to go no matter what. I only update it when I want to. Usually every few months now, but I've left it alone for over a year and there were absolutely zero problems.
- nikau 4y agoCorollary, I have an infrequently used Ubuntu install on my laptop which I recently booted up to run a serial terminal emulator on. Went to install minicom and apt was locked due to package manager doing updates.