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Even in something as late as 2009, I installed Ubuntu, was told by Ubuntu to upgrade the packages, did so, and on next reboot saw some sort of arcane panic mess
by jorvi 3y ago
Even in something as late as 2009, I installed Ubuntu, was told by Ubuntu to upgrade the packages, did so, and on next reboot saw some sort of arcane panic message and was dropped into a bare shell straight out of POST.
Linux stability pre-2015 (?) is not something to be lauded.
- pengaru 3y agoMy comment is specifically about drivers. I've used Linux exclusively since the 90s after leaving OS/2 Warp and rarely encountered a driver-related instability issue with any actual supported by mainline hardware. The few which come to mind had to do with NIC drivers requiring disabling offload features, or link rate auto-negotiation failures. Your problem sounds like a non-specific distro update bug. Don't even get me started on my mother's current Win11 machine that breaks its USB printer on every.single.update.
- anthk 3y agoUbuntu was a turd build on Debian Testing. Debian was rock solid, and Slackware never crashed. If you wanted something Ubuntu like, you installed Debian and then you upgraded everything to Backports.
- hulitu 3y ago> Even in something as late as 2009, I installed Ubuntu, was told by Ubuntu to upgrade the packages, did so, and on next reboot saw some sort of arcane panic message and was dropped into a bare shell Yet after 10 years people still think automatic updates are a good idea.