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I never had a problem before. The people saying we need this for convenience felt detached & wrong from the start. It's popular to be cynical & conservative, t

I never had a problem before. The people saying we need this for convenience felt detached & wrong from the start. It's popular to be cynical & conservative, to disbelieve. That has won the day. It doesn't do anything to convince me it was a good choice or actually helpful, that we were right to just give up.

preseinger 4y ago
"wrong" or "a good choice" or "actually helpful" are not objective measures, they are judged by a specific observer, what's wrong for you can be right for someone else i won't try to refute your personal experience, but i'll observe it's relevant in this discussion only to the extent that your individual context is representative of consumers of this kind of software in general that static linking provides a more reliable end-user experience vs. dynamic linking is hopefully not controversial, the point about security updates is true and important but very infrequent compared to new installations