Honestly the best part of linux is how you can make almost every part of it transferable if you know what your doing, making a reinstall so easy that you could do it monthly and have little problems, though linux in general has been more stable than windows in my experience.
Recent-ish it wasn't too common, but it always had some querks that would require work to fix, more than anything with win 11 i noticed tons of ram use that wasn't needed.
I guess that might be true because even google ai says it is more likely an update to go bad on a rolling release, but in my actual experience (just like yours), I also disagree. The only time an update went bad for me on an arch based distro was I left a manjaro install un-updated for 2 months which isn't the distro's fault. It was a workstation at work and I was gone during that time. I was going to nuke the install anyway, so didn't bother setting up remote logging in >_<
Not to mention the older distros are not as energy efficient. Personally i would virtulise the older systems working, and then run them within proxmox or something. An alternative would be to use some of the more recent opensource retro solutions out there, which actually run the old software quite well.
Oh wow, i miss read that for a moment, i thought you where recommending Darkseed!
If you update too frequently, things might break so, it's best to not update for a while and let devs and maintainers fix stuff. It helps to be in discords or communities for your respective distro of choice just in case for news and updates or heads up, etc.
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I would argue that keeping a back up of your set up and states of these back ups would be good, before you update. But that's just my ssssssssys-admin brain talking, not for everyone and can be arbitrary and fiddly, especially if your hardware changesssssss.
I remember there were many reactions and hostility initially when Steam made it's first foray into Linux and introduced commercial games. Linux was associated both with free software but also free games, as in open source free.
Yep already do. Snapshots with btrfs as well help if any hiccups occur. I don’t update very often probably like once every three weeks or if there’s something significant I’ll update sooner. But I’m gonna keep my eye out regarding the Arch stuff being attacked.
Specifically he's likely referring to the AUR viral packages, this however CANNOT at least currently, be a clean package getting a infected update pushed out unless the maker of the AUR package itself does so, account hacking notwithstanding of course.
Well, one can always download and install LTSC version of win10, which will be supported until Jan 12 2027. Better yet - you can install LTSC IoT version, which has guaranteed support untile the Jan 13, 2032.
Even better, atlas os or any of the iso modifiers for windows 10/11 and rip out the telemetry and copilot yourself.
Ever heard about BlackBird? I think not. It removes ALL spies from your sytem, literally ALL. Cannot apply it to win11 tho, b'coz telemetry is embedded so deep into it, that removing it will end in system failure.
