• CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    As someone who works on Windows daily… this is so true. One of the things that really annoys me with Windows is being able to reliably do updates. Running any of the update stuff, seems more like a suggestion and if Windows deems your request worthy, it might SLOWLY do something.

    • Jyek@sh.itjust.works
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      1 hour ago

      Winget update --all

      But yes, this updates any packages distributed by Ms store and winget repos. As an IT professional, I love winget.

    • Nalivai@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      Which will try to update all 3 apps that are available via winget. It will break one of them. It has 50% chance of bonking some drivers.

  • plutopos@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    KDE Plasma recommends applying updates at reboot like Windows for stability. In fact, that is how it does them by default

    • Nalivai@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      Wait, plasma does your system updates? I don’t think it’s an appropriate chain of commands

      • plutopos@lemmy.zip
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        2 hours ago

        Sure, what I’m saying is the “windows way” of applying updates isn’t bad and there’s a reason why they do it

        • potoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 hours ago

          And what he’s saying is it’s his life. It’s now or never. No one’s gonna live forever. He just wants to live while he’s alive. It’s. His. Life!

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Aaaand… you’re on Debian, so Blender 4.0 just got added to the testing branch. (Blender 4.0 still haven’t been tested for 168 hours of continuous running without touching it)

    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      7 hours ago

      It’s a good thing system packages (which should follow a conservative update approach if possible to guarantee system stability, unless hardware demands newer packages) and user applications (which you’d usually want to be most up-to-date) are increasingly isolated from each other and mostly able to follow their own schedules. Also improves security and such.

    • Zink@programming.dev
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      2 hours ago

      iirc, apt-get is the version to use in scripts. They keep the input & output consistent so that it won’t break things.

      Regular old apt is for humans to use at the command prompt, and that’s what I use all the time.

  • holo@lemmy.zip
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    12 hours ago

    nixos-rebuild switch

    going to nix from another distro like the leap from going from windows to linux

    • DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml
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      11 hours ago

      I’d rather switch back to Windows than try NixOS again. The immutable structure was far too rigid for me.

      • iopq@lemmy.world
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        9 hours ago

        I run an Ubuntu server and I make the history keep a lot of entries so I remember which files I changed

        It shouldn’t have to be like this

    • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      sorry, usage of this tool has been discontinued, please use [WORSE TOOL WITH DIFFERENT NAME]

      (joking but not really, gemini-cli is going to the google graveyard, replaced by antigravity-cli that’s basically the same, but in google’s tradition it launches with less features and also it’s not FOSS)

  • fizzbang@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Every single time I’ve run upgrade on Debian, I’ve bricked my install. I’m sure I’m doing something wrong 😆

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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      9 hours ago

      I’m probably a big newb, but on my headless Debian machines, major updates screw me up sometimes too.

      • “Ah! All my updates can’t be found on the server? Oh we’re done with “Bo-Peep” and moving to “PotatoHead” now? Maybe I should be on the newsletter or something…”
      • Change some sources in that one text file I gotta look up every time…
      • apt update && apt dist-upgrade “Oh, that’s a lot of errors…”

      I’m sure it’s not that bad and I’m being dramatic but I do kinda appreciate my rolling OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for this reason lol. I feel like newbies would struggle with that major release upgrade process…

        • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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          2 hours ago

          Haha Debian is really cool and I’m glad it’s there! Definitely rock solid! Don’t wanna throw any shade at their very important work. :)

          …I’m just too goofy to update it properly sometimes. 😅 Skill issue lol.

  • Psiczar@aussie.zone
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    17 hours ago

    Another low-effort, inaccurate meme. A true comparison would be if you replaced the first screenshot with an image of someone clicking the update button.

    I don’t mind criticising Windows but go after the genuine reasons for moving to Linux. No spyware, no AI forced on you etc.

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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        15 hours ago

        Not everybody feels like memorizing undiscoverable magic phrases that might not be in a language they speak.

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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      17 hours ago

      The true comparison is someone getting into work at 7am to work on a project due for a meeting at 10am and two of those hours are waiting for a mandatory Windows update to install.

      I think they got rid of the mandatory updates, tho, largely because the updates were breaking the OS…

      but anyway, I think the meme might be pointing at the issue of consent.

  • boredsquirrel (he)@slrpnk.net
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    18 hours ago

    Lol, apt changes your system in place and is pretty likely to break it.

    Atomic upgrades are fast and reliable.

    But windows updates break FAR less than a messy package based distro does, especially if you actually have package changes (i.e. not a stable distro, or a version upgrade)