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Re:The Never-Updaters: Why Some People Refuse to Download Ne... by mbrndtgn on Monday November 06, 2023 @02:16PM (#38167370)
To be honest, I've rarely lost any functionality because of a new feature release of any software. I can't even think of a security update that caused any problems in the last few years.

The article mentions iOS and macOS updates and I can relate to that somewhat, though. OS X 10.7 at the time was horrible. It had known memory leaks that never got fixed and you _had_ to update to 10.8 to fix it. There was also a version that introduced a new DNS forwarder which was so broken that Apple rolled it back in a point update.

It still seems weird to me to reject any software updates based on broken functionality.

Oh, I actually do stay away from updates on one device. My HP printer would reject my third party toner if I would update it and that's why I keep it disconnected from the internet.

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Re:The Never-Updaters: Why Some People Refuse to Download Ne... by JohnFen on Monday November 06, 2023 @04:05PM (#38169000)
> It still seems weird to me to reject any software updates based on broken functionality.

Does it seem weird to you because you've never suffered due to a change in the feature set? I can understand that. If you haven't felt the pain, it's hard to be very sympathetic.

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