Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ...
by shadowgovt on Monday October 24, 2022 @11:35AM
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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.
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.