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I've had "stable" distributions fall over upgrading between their major versions. But you missed the point that Android's system image is immutable and updates
by kllrnohj 2y ago
I've had "stable" distributions fall over upgrading between their major versions.
But you missed the point that Android's system image is immutable and updates are atomic. A user can't screw it up. This is not an insignificant feature, and it's something you also get with something like Fedora Silverblue. Which then also doesn't let you pick and choose what updates to get.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoMajor version upgrades occasionally break things because they're a new feature release but are then trying to migrate configuration from the existing system. But the same thing happens with "atomic" upgrades if you're trying to migrate existing configuration, because the bug is really in the migration system that didn't properly handle that configuration variance, not because the packages aren't upgraded atomically. Which is why phones sometimes do break on major version upgrades for the same reason.