Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint

On 2024-12-14, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

Le 2024-12-14 à 00:43, rbowman a écrit :

On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 22:07:11 -0500, DFS wrote:
 

On 12/13/2024 10:40 AM, vallor wrote:
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It's a lot easier to update Linux than Windows or MacOS.

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Maybe, maybe not.
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The massive update to Win11 24H2 was a few mouse clicks.  Absolutely no
other user input was required.

 
There is a GUI but I prefer command line.
 

sudo dnf update --refreah

 
gets the job done. I do have to enter my password. It then tells me which
packages will be updated and their sizes and asks me if I want to
continue.
 
I did update two machines to 24H2 this week. I got to play several games
of Mahjong solitaire while checking back  'Downloading 3%', Downloading
13%' and so forth, and then several mare with 'Installing 5%' etc. At the
end I had to restart. More games, 'Updating you computer..' Finally I was
able to log in.  'Hi! Getting things ready for you'
 
I have no idea what was updated although I probably could hunt down the
KB. The good news is it doesn't seem to have broken anything. I did a work
machine that I hardly ever use anymore and a laptop which is solely used
for accessing the corporate VPN so it wasn't a real stress test.
 
I suppose some day I'll move to Fedora 41 and Ubuntu 24.2 but if it ain't
broken...

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Like I just wrote in my previous post, the reason Windows did all that
is because it essentially installed a new copy of the operating system
on your computer and left the previous version on the disk in case there
is a problem so you can revert to it. Linux overwrites, Windows installs
anew. If I ran the operating system on a hard disk and had a slow
Internet connection, I'd absolutely hate Windows for doing that. Since I
don't, I appreciate the new installation which preserves all of my
programs and settings yet cleans out any crap I might have amassed on
the previous install.

There's no real comparison. The way Windows updates simply sucks. Maybe some
day Microsoft will figure out how to do it right. But there's reasons why
Linux can update WITHOUT rebooting and Windows can't. Windows is an inferior
OS.

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