Nah, when Windows installs new hardware it doesn't uninstall the old hardware. Good luck on the license front though, since Microsoft has decided you can't move around the item you purchased from them...
That's what I was thinking. Good luck getting all the random crap you have installed to update without choking on EOL'd packages, or various packages that have new config formats, or changes to the updater itself, or…
s/Linux // Windows isn't any better. I don't have enough Mac experience but I doubt it has some magic bullet.
No, it wouldn't, because that versatility can be attained by... not using the installer, the exact same as the situation without an installer. An installer, if anything, improves "user centrality" because you're making…
If you have a rootkit that you're concerned about copying around, that can somehow persist through pretty much everything on the system being upgraded at some point or another... you should probably also be worried…
glibc updates have recently broken lots of Electron software (and probably other stuff using similar sandboxing), by using a new syscall (clone3? or something) to implement some library methods. Pretty much every glibc…
That's great! But what it doesn't say is what's actually relevant: how much time you spent maintaining it in that period. Stuff being obviously/"disruptively" broken usually has an undue amount of weight given to it,…
Nah, when Windows installs new hardware it doesn't uninstall the old hardware. Good luck on the license front though, since Microsoft has decided you can't move around the item you purchased from them...
That's what I was thinking. Good luck getting all the random crap you have installed to update without choking on EOL'd packages, or various packages that have new config formats, or changes to the updater itself, or…
s/Linux // Windows isn't any better. I don't have enough Mac experience but I doubt it has some magic bullet.
No, it wouldn't, because that versatility can be attained by... not using the installer, the exact same as the situation without an installer. An installer, if anything, improves "user centrality" because you're making…
If you have a rootkit that you're concerned about copying around, that can somehow persist through pretty much everything on the system being upgraded at some point or another... you should probably also be worried…
glibc updates have recently broken lots of Electron software (and probably other stuff using similar sandboxing), by using a new syscall (clone3? or something) to implement some library methods. Pretty much every glibc…
That's great! But what it doesn't say is what's actually relevant: how much time you spent maintaining it in that period. Stuff being obviously/"disruptively" broken usually has an undue amount of weight given to it,…