Poll: What OS do you use on your primary computer?

Re:Poll: What OS do you use on your primary computer? by Osiris on Monday May 19, 2014 @11:04PM (#7771053)

I get scared everytime I do an apt-get update because I've had it break my Linux box more than once, sometimes horribly (especially when doing a dist-upgrade to get a new kernel).

It's even worse when the Nvidia drivers don't automatically recompile for the new kernel. I've had many upgrade that resulted in no functional X-Window session so I had to use the terminal to download and recompile the video drivers.

I realize that's a problem with binary blobs rather than open source drivers, but it's also a reality.

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Re:Poll: What OS do you use on your primary computer? by reedlaw on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @12:06AM (#7771206)

I had that fear under Ubuntu because a new dist upgrade is usually especially unstable. Now that I use Arch I don't fear upgrades. I do perform them fairly often though, because massive upgrades in general can be problematic.

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Re:Poll: What OS do you use on your primary computer? by greyfade on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @02:09PM (#7774155)

Distributions have improved their NVIDIA packages to such a degree that I haven't encountered problems with driver upgrades in many years, across several distributions.

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