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The Windows 11 problem (www.spacebar.news)

submitted 10 months ago by corbin@infosec.pub to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm not the guy you asked, and I hope he responds because I'd like to hear his answer too, but a lot of that depends on the Linux distro you select. On rolling releases you get continuous updates automatically, not major upgrades like forced Windows Updates.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I'm OP, he runs Manjaro and I handle the updates whenever I see him, every month or so (I live out of state). I could do it over SSH but if something happens to break, it's a pain to fix. I showed him how to do it in the GUI but he doesn't care to do it.

[–] itsraining@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

What do you mean, automatically? Arch is a rolling release and I have to explicitly run pacman with the correct flags to update. At the same time Debian, which is not a rolling release, has the unattended upgrades feature which installs updates automatically.

But indeed, many things depend on the distro. For example, user-centric distros such as Elementary and others provide an easy to use GUI for updating the system.

And yes, Windows Updates was (is still? not a Win user) a nightmare.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

What do you mean, automatically? Arch is a rolling release and I have to explicitly run pacman with the correct flags to update. At the same time Debian, which is not a rolling release, has the unattended upgrades feature which installs updates automatically.

I was thinking Tumbleweed, Manjaro and the like which have GUI updaters, lol. @pete_the_cat@lemmy.world was pretty clear that his parents are the ultimate Linux beginners; he's not going to give them Arch or Debian out of the box and bark command lines at them.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I actually have given him Arch before, but I handled everything. They're running Manjaro.