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by WfAjWDYpDHDYCN5 4y ago
Nah, when Windows installs new hardware it doesn't uninstall the old hardware. Good luck on the license front though, since Microsoft has decided you can't move around the item you purchased from them...
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by WfAjWDYpDHDYCN5 4y ago
That's what I was thinking. Good luck getting all the random crap you have installed to update without choking on EOL'd packages, or various packages that have new config formats, or changes to the updater itself, or apps which on
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by WfAjWDYpDHDYCN5 4y ago
s/Linux // Windows isn't any better. I don't have enough Mac experience but I doubt it has some magic bullet.
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by WfAjWDYpDHDYCN5 4y ago
No, it wouldn't, because that versatility can be attained by... not using the installer, the exact same as the situation without an installer . An installer, if anything, improves "user centrality" because you're maki
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by WfAjWDYpDHDYCN5 4y ago
They're talking about an installer for Arch itself (which could and should support the bare minimum options that most users want), which is what it didn't have until recently; not installers for packages within Arch, which it has
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by WfAjWDYpDHDYCN5 4y ago
If you have a rootkit that you're concerned about copying around, that can somehow persist through pretty much everything on the system being upgraded at some point or another... you should probably also be worried about the various ve
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by WfAjWDYpDHDYCN5 4y ago
glibc updates have recently broken lots of Electron software (and probably other stuff using similar sandboxing), by using a new syscall (clone3? or something) to implement some library methods. Pretty much every glibc update breaks someth
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by WfAjWDYpDHDYCN5 4y ago
That's great! But what it doesn't say is what's actually relevant: how much time you spent maintaining it in that period. Stuff being obviously/"disruptively" broken usually has an undue amount of weight given