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Re:Jellyfin 10.9.0 by metadat on Sunday May 12, 2024 @12:05AM (#40332213)
But 4 years is a pretty short time. Compare 4 years with the 20+ evil Microsoft Windows gives to pirates for free.. when $ms doesn't really have to.. dozens of years of compatibility. Linux sucks in this dimension, and I am a huge advocate professionally and personally of Linux.

Have you ever tried to install the latest Node.js and discovered your glibc.so is too old? It's a major impediment and just plain sucks, especially for open source.

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Re:Jellyfin 10.9.0 by jauntywundrkind on Sunday May 12, 2024 @12:15AM (#40332246)
18.04 is from 2018. That's what the "18" means. That's 6 years.

Apt-get dist upgrade is really not hard. Learn it, do it.

Society & world has a necessity to not anchor itself to a distant past. In general I believe free software is moving at a bit more incremental pace, with some noticeable new innovation sprinkled in. But a 4.15 kernel from 2018 really is from a before time, before things started settling down. I have no respect for preserving those systems. Anchoring ourselves to the past is antithetical to open source's strengths.

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Re:Jellyfin 10.9.0 by metadat on Sunday May 12, 2024 @12:16AM (#40332254)
It's hosed several of my machines before, please forgive me Father, but never again.
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