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I would like this but I don't know how much of a demand there is in the popular market. Eg. There's windows ltsc available but people aren't exactly clamouring
by vivekd 3y ago
I would like this but I don't know how much of a demand there is in the popular market. Eg. There's windows ltsc available but people aren't exactly clamouring over it. Stuff like debian has a limited user base.
I think tech for most people is like clothing - part of the excitement of having it is the fact that it's the latest and greatest. Stability is the priority of a minority it seems
- AshamedCaptain 3y agoLTSC on Windows is a crappy experience. For example, instead of shipping with a suitable long-term supported Camera program (either Win32 or UWP, who cares), they just decide not to put any camera program whatsoever, for no apparent reason. Just Google around to find a lot of users complaining about it. Same with every other program which MS claims needs to be updated frequently, which are excluded from the LTSC. Most of these "programs which require frequent updates" are fully local-only programs like the camera or media player. I'm quite sure it'll include Notepad soon, as it is now a UWP program. It's ridiculous. Plus, you get like what, 5 years normally, 10 if you're lucky? Peanuts. We're talking about API stability in much longer terms (which Win32 itself somewhat manages).
- iamcalledrob 3y agoI think that developers do care about API stability (who wants to rewrite working code for no good reason?), but the effects of this time wasting are only felt indirectly by normal people. Since consumers have very little choice in their mobile OS, developers just have to put up with the thrash. It is possible to build new OS capabilities whilst maintaining a good deal of stability for existing APIs.