Updates

One thing I was never a fan of was 'updates' in Windows.

I disabled them as quickly as I could and only updated my software if it was absolutely necessary.

I keep getting update notices in Kubuntu (lots). I have the latest version.

What do you folks do?

Update several times a day/week?

I wait a couple of days after getting the notice to update, then go ahead and run the updates.The reason that I wait is so that in the rare case when an update causes a problem, there are enough eyes on it so it gets fixed usually within days, if not sooner. Honestly, you can, except in a extremely few cases, update every couple of days and not have a problem.

Basically, don't worry and just update.

Edited by Thomas53, 31 May 2024 - 12:03 AM.

I tend to run the update command every few days/a week unless there's some serious bug which I patch immediately if the patches are out.

@MarkBeepBeep :-

It's all rather subjective.......and very much depends on how the OS is set-up to function. We don't update at all in 'Puppy' Linux; for one, Puppy doesn't have an 'update mechanism', per se, and for another, Puppy's philosophy takes the view that "if it ain't 'broke', why try to 'fix' it"?

Our approach is slightly different. A Puppy can be installed and be "up-and-running" in around 5 minutes.....and since Puppies, generally speaking, are much smaller than most other distros (due to consisting of highly-compressed files that are decompressed into a virtual file-system in RAM at boot), if the user feels the need for newer versions of stuff then it's simple to just install and boot a newer Puppy.

In 5 minutes or so you can be running a newer Puppy, with a newer kernel and newer dependencies. That's less time than it takes for most distros to perform the update process!

Many of our provided apps come in 'portable' format - browsers in particular - and since browsers always need to be as up-to-date as possible, these mostly all have updaters built-in. So; you can have an up-to-date, secure browsing experience without the need to have to update everything else.... 

It might sound an awkward way of doing things, and it probably won't suit many geeks, but.....it works for us.

Mike. 

Updates on Linux are a bit less buggier than they are in Windows.

Since I use a rolling distro aka Arch, I run updates daily if I can, and once a week at the most.

Thanks Dan. Did you mean at the least?

@MarkBeepBeep :-

 

It's all rather subjective.......and very much depends on how the OS is set-up to function. We don't update at all in 'Puppy' Linux; for one, Puppy doesn't have an 'update mechanism', per se, and for another, Puppy's philosophy takes the view that "if it ain't 'broke', why try to 'fix' it"?

 

Our approach is slightly different. A Puppy can be installed and be "up-and-running" in around 5 minutes.....and since Puppies, generally speaking, are much smaller than most other distros (due to consisting of highly-compressed files that are decompressed into a virtual file-system in RAM at boot), if the user feels the need for newer versions of stuff then it's simple to just install and boot a newer Puppy.

 

In 5 minutes or so you can be running a newer Puppy, with a newer kernel and newer dependencies. That's less time than it takes for most distros to perform the update process!

 

Many of our provided apps come in 'portable' format - browsers in particular - and since browsers always need to be as up-to-date as possible, these mostly all have updaters built-in. So; you can have an up-to-date, secure browsing experience without the need to have to update everything else.... 

 

It might sound an awkward way of doing things, and it probably won't suit many geeks, but.....it works for us.

 

 

Mike. 

Thanks Mike for your input. I can relate to everything that you said actually. 

That's the type of system I could see myself using. Minimal fuss and bother.

The "if it ain't broke" philosophy.

Updates on Linux are a bit less buggier than they are in Windows.

Since I use a rolling distro aka Arch, I run updates daily if I can, and once a week at the most.

Thanks Dan. Did you mean at the least?

 

 

Updates on Linux are a bit less buggier than they are in Windows.

Since I use a rolling distro aka Arch, I run updates daily if I can, and once a week at the most.

Thanks Dan. Did you mean at the least?

 

One a week atthe most is 1 time per week and thats 4 times a month. I try not to skip a week, because after a month or so the updates are up to 2 to 4 gigs.

 

OK thanks.

It's just that when you said "I run updates daily if I can, and once a week at the most." I was confused.

If you're running daily (if you can), that equals seven times a week. And then you talked about once a week at most.

 

 

Updates on Linux are a bit less buggier than they are in Windows.

Since I use a rolling distro aka Arch, I run updates daily if I can, and once a week at the most.

Thanks Dan. Did you mean at the least?
 

One a week atthe most is 1 time per week and thats 4 times a month. I try not to skip a week, because after a month or so the updates are up to 2 to 4 gigs.
 

OK thanks.
 
It's just that when you said "I run updates daily if I can, and once a week at the most." I was confused.
If you're running daily (if you can), that equals seven times a week. And then you talked about once a week at most.

Edited by Chiragroop, 31 May 2024 - 02:04 PM.