Comment by jacquesm
6 months ago
> And practical differences like being able to fix security issues benefits users.
More often than not these updates are not actually benefits to the users.
6 months ago
> And practical differences like being able to fix security issues benefits users.
More often than not these updates are not actually benefits to the users.
Can you provide such an example? Because of bugs in the new version? A lot of the time old versions can still be loaded.
Just in the last couple of days:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45568700
There are by now thousands of examples of this, I wonder why you would ask for an example, this is about as uncontroversial as the sun going up tomorrow.
The number of times that Linux distros, free software, has made my computer unusable, requiring me to manually fix it, is uncountable. Bugs from OS updates is still entirely possible even without updating firmware blobs.
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