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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by ryandrake on Monday October 24, 2022 @11:17AM (#33317824)
Software companies' bad behavior has trained me to no longer trust updating. I would love to auto-update my software if I had some kind of assurance that all I was getting in those updates were security fixes. But instead, companies abuse auto-update to shovel everything else at me too: Unnecessary UI changes, new features I don't want, removal of old features I regularly use, larger binaries, slower binaries, and so on.

More software companies need to get on board with the idea of having a separate maintenance branch and "next version" branch. Too many of them just develop on trunk and every time you update for bug fixes and security, you get all the other crap their developers have been working on too.

Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by shadowgovt on Monday October 24, 2022 @11:35AM (#33318074)
Funny enough, I was trained off of that not by software companies, but by the open-source community.

Too many instances of installed Linux distros breaking because some foo relied on some bar that the distro declared should work fine but must have slipped through the testing cracks somehow. Or I'd gone off-book on some custom project or other because it relied on library versions that weren't in the distro, then I forgot I did that and updating the distro libs broke my project.

I basically never run the apt updates these days.