• Magnum, P.I.@infosec.pub
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    5 days ago

    You have been using Linux for the past 30 years but you are shocked that updates can break things? What?

    • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      It happened once in the last ten years (thanks Nvidia). But I just rolled back to my previous btrfs snapshot and kept on computing until it was fixed a day or two later.

      But forced breaking updates the first Tuesday of every month sounds like a really bad user experience.

      Things were different back in the 90s before loadable kernel modules. Online updates weren’t much of a thing, either. You’d just install that new slackware release over your old root partition anyway.