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Subject: Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint
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On 2024-12-14, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> Le 2024-12-13 à 22:07, DFS a écrit :
>> On 12/13/2024 10:40 AM, vallor wrote:
>> 
>>> It's a lot easier to update Linux than Windows or MacOS.
>> 
>> 
>> Maybe, maybe not.
>> 
>> The massive update to Win11 24H2 was a few mouse clicks.  Absolutely no 
>> other user input was required.
>
> Actually, I would challenge Scotty the Hutt's accessment there. If you 
> update daily, Linux is vastly superior to Windows in that area. However, 
> if you're like my wife and reject updates months at a time, there is a 
> great chance that you will damage your operating system the moment you 
> decide to go through with them on the Linux side. Windows is generally 
> better with seldom-used machines.

I'll challenge that statement. I know better. I've updated many Linux 
machines after months of not turning them on. Even "ancient" computers from 
pre-2010 update quickly and cleanly when using Linux and fast Internet.

As I've mentioned before (several times) this assumes you're using a 
business machine with an Intel GPU. I have read about (not personally 
experienced) issues with Nvidia GPUs and Linux upgrades. But I've also seen 
upgrades cause BSODs in my wife's laptop that used a Nvidia (I always just 
disabled the Nvidia GPU, since it also had an Intel GPU) — so I'm putting 
some of that on Nvidia.

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“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien