Re:Google’s in-house desktop Linux
by PaulDavisThe1st on Monday August 01, 2022 @06:48PM
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... or when an ill-advised and insufficiently tested change to the internals of glibc suddenly causes threaded applications to misbehave ... great that it was fixed quickly, but for the "regular users" who suddenly found a variety of applications malfunctioning (but they each typically only used one, and hence blamed the application they used), a strong argument against rolling releases.
Re:Google’s in-house desktop Linux
by vlovich123 on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @09:14AM
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Did Arch users have this problem? I think OPs point is that rolling distros like that keep all packages closer in line with where the upstream is and avoid these kinds of issues. And if there are versions that have problems you can easily choose from any historic version far more easily than on Debian. Now of course it doesn’t save you from having to troubleshoot your own issues which very much is a time sink.
The "best" user experience you're referring to is getting surprises like your OpenSSH 9 suddenly stopping to work with your key agent [1] out of the blue because they decided to change the protocol (no big deal right?) without any hint of this whatsoever during normal usage, and you just casually upgraded your packages because, well, when did Linux package upgrades ever hurt anybody?
(Just the latest incredibly frustrating surprise your fellow "Windows person" literally had to spend hours on tracking down. And that I actually remember. Most definitely not the only one.)
[1] https://www.openssh.com/agent-restrict.html