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Re:After the end of the startup era by xfer on Sunday October 22, 2017 @08:52PM (#15529933)
You don't need to customize your software every month. I haven't customized my configs for over 3 years now. I am running linux and it is a one-time effort.
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Re:After the end of the startup era by jedberg on Monday October 23, 2017 @12:16AM (#15530678)
No offense, but that's kind of the fun of linux on the desktop.

Also, if you really haven't updated in three years, that means that you're still running kernel 3.16, which has 81 known vulnerabilities[0], 12 of which are critical. That's the kind of stuff I don't really want to worry about anymore.

[0] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-33/p...

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Re:After the end of the startup era by xfer on Monday October 23, 2017 @02:18AM (#15531077)
No idea what's your definition of customization is but running package update command isn't what i consider as customization. And updating kernel/pkgs doesn't require you to customize them.
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Re:After the end of the startup era by tekjenitalor on Monday October 23, 2017 @08:54AM (#15532775)
I get both sides of this. For 17 years I ran linux everywhere. FreeBSD as well but infrequently as a desktop. After two years of mac and seeing the breakage and perversion of the unix foundations apple inflicts I gave up on it (entirely) and work with macs only under protest.

So now? Linux and *bsd for paid work. Windows for the desktop. cygwin and mobaxterm ftw. All old is new again.

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Re:After the end of the startup era by HumanDrivenDev on Monday October 23, 2017 @12:35AM (#15530754)
Long time (but not very religious about it) Linux user here.

What operating system allows you to "not worry about" OS security updates, and how is it different from Linux?

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Re:After the end of the startup era by raldi on Monday October 23, 2017 @02:07AM (#15531050)
On a Mac, you get a popup that says there's a new OS update, hit the spacebar with your forehead, get a drink while your computer reboots, and when you get back, it's restarted and put all your application windows back the way you left them, including terminal contents.

In my experience, on Linux such installations are smooth for about a year and a half, and then start failing for cryptic reasons, even if you've done everything possible to pick a mainstream distro, ideal hardware, and keep the machine as vanilla as possible.

(And I say this as someone who's been using Linux since the 1990's.)

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Re:After the end of the startup era by xfer on Monday October 23, 2017 @02:24AM (#15531100)
I use a rolling release distro(void-linux), like i mentioned i haven't had to do any such thing for about 3 years.

I also take care of my parents computer with ubuntu and i have done two major release upgrades and have experienced no errors.

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Re:After the end of the startup era by ulucs on Monday October 23, 2017 @02:33AM (#15531123)
> On a Mac, you get a popup that says there's a new OS upgrade, you hit the spacebar with your forehead, get a drink while your computer reboots, and when you get back, it's restarted and put all your application windows back the way you left them, including terminal contents.

The latest update introduced many problems, though

https://www.google.com/search?q=high+sierra+breaks&ie=utf-8&...

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Re:After the end of the startup era by raldi on Monday October 23, 2017 @02:37AM (#15531138)
And it's major "man bites dog" news. When a major Linux distro does that, it doesn't even merit mentioning on Slashdot anymore.
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