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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 10:33:06 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-12-15, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> Le 2024-12-14 à 11:14, RonB a écrit :
>> On 2024-12-14, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> Le 2024-12-14 à 00:43, rbowman a écrit :
>>>> On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 22:07:11 -0500, DFS wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> There is a GUI but I prefer command line.
>>>>
>>>>> sudo dnf update --refreah
>>>>
>>>> gets the job done. I do have to enter my password. It then tells me which
>>>> packages will be updated and their sizes and asks me if I want to
>>>> continue.
>>>>
>>>> I did update two machines to 24H2 this week. I got to play several games
>>>> of Mahjong solitaire while checking back  'Downloading 3%', Downloading
>>>> 13%' and so forth, and then several mare with 'Installing 5%' etc. At the
>>>> end I had to restart. More games, 'Updating you computer..' Finally I was
>>>> able to log in.  'Hi! Getting things ready for you'
>>>>
>>>> I have no idea what was updated although I probably could hunt down the
>>>> KB. The good news is it doesn't seem to have broken anything. I did a work
>>>> machine that I hardly ever use anymore and a laptop which is solely used
>>>> for accessing the corporate VPN so it wasn't a real stress test.
>>>>
>>>> I suppose some day I'll move to Fedora 41 and Ubuntu 24.2 but if it ain't
>>>> broken...
>>>
>>> Like I just wrote in my previous post, the reason Windows did all that
>>> is because it essentially installed a new copy of the operating system
>>> on your computer and left the previous version on the disk in case there
>>> is a problem so you can revert to it. Linux overwrites, Windows installs
>>> anew. If I ran the operating system on a hard disk and had a slow
>>> Internet connection, I'd absolutely hate Windows for doing that. Since I
>>> don't, I appreciate the new installation which preserves all of my
>>> programs and settings yet cleans out any crap I might have amassed on
>>> the previous install.
>> 
>> There's no real comparison. The way Windows updates simply sucks. Maybe some
>> day Microsoft will figure out how to do it right. But there's reasons why
>> Linux can update WITHOUT rebooting and Windows can't. Windows is an inferior
>> OS.
>
> Not all Windows updates require a restart; only the big ones do. To be 
> fair, many such updates require a restart in Linux too. In the short 
> time I used a recent version of Fedora, I noticed that it required me to 
> restart quite a few times.

I've installed applications on Windows that required a reboot. And the "big" 
Windows' updates often require multiple reboots.

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