3 ms·
I get scared everytime I do an apt-get update because I've had it break my Linux box more than once, sometimes horribly (especially when doing a dist-upgrade to
by Osiris 12y ago
I get scared everytime I do an apt-get update because I've had it break my Linux box more than once, sometimes horribly (especially when doing a dist-upgrade to get a new kernel).
It's even worse when the Nvidia drivers don't automatically recompile for the new kernel. I've had many upgrade that resulted in no functional X-Window session so I had to use the terminal to download and recompile the video drivers.
I realize that's a problem with binary blobs rather than open source drivers, but it's also a reality.
- reedlaw 12y agoI had that fear under Ubuntu because a new dist upgrade is usually especially unstable. Now that I use Arch I don't fear upgrades. I do perform them fairly often though, because massive upgrades in general can be problematic.
- greyfade 12y agoDistributions have improved their NVIDIA packages to such a degree that I haven't encountered problems with driver upgrades in many years, across several distributions.