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Re:macOS 13.5 no longer allows setting system wide ulimits by curt15 on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @11:22AM (#37237464)
>Yes, exactly. Use a stable distro, don't touch things, and they won't change. It will continue to run exactly the same for years and years. This is in contrast to OSX and Windows. Windows is completely unrecognizable to me since stopped using it 7-8 years ago (the last version I used being Windows 7).

Unless you're willing to use Flatpak though, you'll be stuck with old versions of applications because user applications in the Linux world are typically tightly coupled to the system packages.

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Re:macOS 13.5 no longer allows setting system wide ulimits by ndriscoll on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @11:56AM (#37238018)
Right but that's the point. I'm fine with my stuff being out of date. I'm not trying to tinker. I don't need to use the latest versions of things because the current ones work fine. If there were something new I really wanted, then I can use one of those containerized versions until it lands in my distro's stable channel, which is every 6 months or so for feature releases.
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