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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Linux, openSUSE ready for Everyday Users (news.opensuse.org)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

GNOME puts it right in your face as a dialog message...but yeah people will ignore it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

TV I agree, my LG updated and now streaming video is broken.

For android phone GrapheneOS.

I haven't found Linux to be fragile. I think that is distro dependent.

I'm on same OpenSUSE (with version upgrades) since 2017. Every update has been fine, only time it was an issue is when nVidia driver got ahead of the kernel for a few days. But OpenSUSE you just choose the previous snapshot.

My wife's laptops is NixOS for maybe 3 years now, no issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For android phone GrapheneOS.

it does not fix a lot of the bullshit changes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But you can install older versions , or choose when you update

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

which is not a solution, only a hotfix