Distribution quotes of the week
Distribution quotes of the week
Posted Aug 8, 2017 8:34 UTC (Tue) by hadess (subscriber, #24252)In reply to: Distribution quotes of the week by madscientist
Parent article: Distribution quotes of the week
> Anyone who knows enough to be able to, or even to NEED to, run apt-get upgrade through SSH, is experienced enough to understand the possible risks.
> The people who might be induced to flee back to MacOS or Windows by an upgrade failing are the people who are going to be using the GUI "software upgrader" box that shows up on their desktop, not SSH.
> The people who might be induced to flee back to MacOS or Windows by an upgrade failing are the people who are going to be using the GUI "software upgrader" box that shows up on their desktop, not SSH.
False dichotomy. You can very well know about both those tools, and not know the effect of combining them. Every time you say that somebody should surely know something would cause breakage, you also confirm that we're right to reboot machines to do updates, because that's the only way to minimise breakage during upgrades.