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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 04 2013 @ 09:54 AM EDT |
Strange, I find Gentoo doesn't give me any upgrade hell at all.
emerge just handles it all for me.
I also don't upgrade just for the sake of it, and have an allergy to anything
even remotely *thinking* about being called "automatic update".
I found Windows was generally worse for all that. MAybe it's just hiding it
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 04 2013 @ 11:14 AM EDT |
| And everyone says that XP is the pits. So you stay on NT? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: xtifr on Friday, April 05 2013 @ 01:41 AM EDT |
Huh. I basically installed my current system in '92. I've upgraded all the
hardware (except the mouse) incrementally, but have never re-installed or
experienced this upgrade hell you speak of.
Of course, I use Debian, which has a well-deserved reputation for taking care of
those sorts of problems for you. I remember back when everyone moved to glibc,
and all the Red Hat users (there weren't as many distros back then) were
screaming about the catastrophic effects. When Debian finally unleashed glibc, I
ran apt-get upgrade, and everything just worked.
(Note: I run Debian unstable, which, despite the name, is quite stable. In fact,
it's what most Debian Developers use, which is why.)
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| Authored by: tiger99 on Saturday, April 06 2013 @ 06:39 PM EDT |
| Every Linux user I know has had completely the opposite experience to what he
claims. Apt-get and its fancy gui substitutes such as Muon work far better than
any Windoze updater, and you never get an unwanted update forced upon you which
then informs you that you must reboot when you are in the middle of doing
something important. Nor do you have updates totalling maybe 5 times the size of
the installed OS cluttering your disc. The equivalent of .dll hell, which I
suppose would be called .so hell, was fixed umpteen years ago, and never, ever
happens nowadays. M$ users are not so fortunate..... I guess that if you
want to be stupid and perverse, you can break a Linux installation by forcibly
installing mismatched packages, but why would you want to when the automated
process works? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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