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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by ChrisSD on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:05PM (#23053137)
Arch is a rolling release, upgrades are expected to break the system at some point. Windows updates aren't meant to.

Most Windows updates are security or bug fixes only. The exception being the twice yearly feature updates. These have been an issue mostly because Microsoft had been using a random subset of Home users as beta testers for new updates. However, they are being less aggressive with this now.

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by dahdum on Saturday May 02, 2020 @02:17PM (#23053735)
> These have been an issue mostly because Microsoft had been using a random subset of Home users as beta testers for new updates.

Oh, that might explain my experience a bit. I've never had any issues with automatic Windows Updates managing 50+ with a mix of common software. Every one of them was always Pro or Enterprise though.

Ran Arch for a couple years for dev with a nightly cronjob of (iirc) "pacman -Syuw --no-confirm". That broke regularly but I knew it was a bad idea.

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