the article does not tell about how to keep the system up to date
this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2024
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Yeah too bad, they should have hilighted that on GNOME DE with OpenSUSE it prompts you that updates are available and you hit OK or cancel. KDE might have something similar.
KDE too, but those users who have literally no idea how does the computer work, they won't even remember to check that popup window. an automatic solution is what is needed.
GNOME puts it right in your face as a dialog message...but yeah people will ignore it
I also sometimes (but often enough, including a time this week) hear people discuss to not install updates because of this and that.
but then if I think about it, I have trained myself too to this:
- I avoid updates to my smart tv, because I know with facts that they'll enshittify it, including patching in admin access (was not obtained by a no-interaction attack), flooding it with ads and even more tracking, and even more preinstalled apps and their own tracking. this applies to any "smart" appliences
- I am cautious with android updates, because they sometimes break things with no way back, not even a real way to do backups. besides that, major version updates always reset some settings including to not connect automatically to any random ISP's cellular network. versions starting with 8 also introduced many new arbitrary limitations out of the user's control that cannot be reverted
- I've seen many apps on the play store get enshittified, but sometimes f-droid apps to make changes that I would wish they rather didn't do
- windows updates breaking expected and unexpected things just as well
- linux is fragile regarding updates, though at times an immediate reboot solves it (when the issue is caused by incompatibility between the the on-disk and in-memory versions of the programs and program libraries)
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