• over_clox@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Updates are one thing, forced updates and an occasional restart while you’re actually using the system is a totally different thing.

    Of course Linux has regular updates, but it’s not gonna force you to restart, you just restart when you’re good and ready.

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      24 hours ago

      Forced updates are bad if they bork you system, sure. If you know what you are doing it’s also mostly fine to skip a few. But the truth of the matter is that 95% of users wouldn’t ever update their system if they didn’t have to. Then half of them infect their system with ransomware and the other half get to join a huge botnet.

      We’ve had that before and I wouldn’t want to go back. A few bored systems because of updates are probably preferable to at least as many lost to malware, where data is often unrecoverable.