[RndTbl] Fedora upgrading
Trevor Cordes
trevor at tecnopolis.ca
Thu Jun 2 23:21:28 CDT 2016
On 2016-06-02 John Lange wrote:
> you are using an enterprise management tool like System Center, it's
[...]
> The same applies to Windows desktop machines. And with Windows 10 it
Ah, yes, I should have specified Windows desktop, and I should have
also specified for home use. Maybe I also should have specified
pre-10! So pre-10, without fancy enterprise tools or a Server domain,
on desktop, say Win7... one cannot upgrade OS (say Vista to 7) without
a head and someone present onsite.
Would anyone here argue with me that maintaining Linux over major
version upgrades is a zillion times easier than Windows (pre-10,
especially without an enterprise environment)? Who doesn't dread a new
Windows version and all the breakage (and newly obsoleted hardware)
that entails. Every new Fedora I upgrade to I know will break 1-2
things *that will be fixable by me or errata'd soon*. Every new
Windows and it's a trip to the hardware store to replace unsupported
peripherals, and for any broken/missing software features you just sit
back and take it. (I speak as one who maintains for decades a constant
~100 Windows and ~20 Linuxen.)
And yes, I did intentionally leave the "head" ambiguous in the
original :-) Sounds funny that way, and everyone here will know what
I'm talking about anyhow :-)
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