• expletivedeleted@lemmy.zip
    1·
    23 minutes ago

    I was a Linux admin on a team of fourteen. A Windows Server admin bragged at his server had gone a full two months without a reboot.

    In fact, it was 65 days. The other Windows admins congratulated him. He came over to tell me the news, which I already overheard and sshed in to check my uptime.

    “821 days uptime.” He got disappointed. That’s cool, because he was a jerk for many reasons.

    But deep inside, I realized I needed to stay late after the call center closed, as it is a good idea to apply kernal patches to your firewall.

  • Zink@programming.dev
    6·
    4 hours ago

    The biggest difference with updates isn’t even being forced vs “when I say so,” even though it does matter.

    The biggest difference for me is the whole “be good at the thing you were made to do” aspect of Linux and FOSS. I never have any hesitation to update my computer, because updates are fast and unobtrusive. At work I will run an update check in a terminal in the middle of a Teams meeting while I also have code building in the background using 100% CPU. No issues.

  • saart@jlai.lu
    221·
    9 hours ago

    Please do reboot your linux, that’s needed to upgrade your kernel.

      • lawks@aussie.zone
        8·
        4 hours ago

        That’s generally bad advice. Only some flaws get CVEs & livepatches. There are plenty of other kernel changes that bring stability, features, and fixes for less severe flaws, which can only be utilised with a reboot. Some systems have onerous uptime requirements and that trade-off is worth it. Most servers are better off rebooting as soon as practicable. If you cannot afford reboots, your problem is more likely insufficient redundancy.

    • bmpvy@piefed.socialEnglish
      61·
      10 hours ago

      can I get this meme in a “Linux Mint is easy to use for a regular user”-Version pls

      • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
        1·
        35 minutes ago

        LM is so damn easy to use that my 76 year old tech illiterate boomer father uses it as his daily driver. Yes I had to install it but that only took a half an hour and it’s been chugging away just fine for nearly 3 years now.

        • Zink@programming.dev
          4·
          4 hours ago

          I absolutely love Linux Mint. But then once I tried regular old Debian with KDE Plasma, I knew that was home.

          • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            1·
            3 hours ago

            What’s the difference? Isn’t there this new fancy gui for mint coming up too? So many questions, would be glad for hints and tips!

        • bmpvy@piefed.socialEnglish
          5·
          7 hours ago

          hahaha fr!

          (full disclosure: I’m using debian myself rn but I want to get my folks to switch to Linux and figured they would like an easy start. And Linux Mint is fine Linux, all the haters are just poser hehe)

          • oatscoop@midwest.social
            2·
            1 hour ago

            Mint is designed for stability, which is great … until you need drivers included in the latest kernel.

            I had to switch to Fedora 44 for PCVR.

  • DupaCycki@lemmy.world
    8·
    8 hours ago

    I feel like in this entire discussion, people almost always forget Windows actually costs money, and quite a lot of it.

    Even if Linux-based OSes weren’t superior in every possible way… they cost nothing versus Windows 11’s $139 USD price tag.

    Linux doesn’t even need to beat Windows at everything to win. And yet it still does.

    • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
      2·
      38 minutes ago

      Almost no one actually buys Windows as a standalone product. If you purchase a new PC from HP, Dell, Acer, etc it comes with it. If you have a Win10 PC or license then Win11 is a free upgrade. The are even several Microsoft 365 SKUs that come with Win11 licensing.

      You can literally d/l it direct from Microsoft and run it without a license; you just have to deal with a small licensing message and a few inconveniences in the UI.

      The only people buying it as a standalone seem to be business idjuts who went to a store and bought a retail PC with Win11 Home that then find out they need Pro in order to Entra join / AD join the hardware. Those people deserve what they pay so I have no sympathy for them.