Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : Arelor
From : boraxman
Date : Wed Apr 20 2022 19:48:50

 Ar>  > I've heard people say that about Windows.  But I've rarely had Windows 
 Ar>  > that b
 Ar>  > There was one time in the late 90s I think I got a computer virus that 
 Ar>  > going
 Ar>  > around that erased my motherboard BIOS, which made it unbootable..  But
 Ar>  > other than
 Ar>  > that, I don't remember ever having Windows crash so bad that I had to
 Ar>  > reinstall
 Ar>  > everything.  And I think Windows has actually gotten more reliable and
 Ar>  > crash-resili
 Ar>  > over the years.  I don't know who is having so many problems with Windo
 Ar>  > 
 Ar>  > Nightfox
 Ar> 
 Ar> My main issue nowadays is update management, when it comes to Windows. I
 Ar> removed all
 Ar> Windows systems from my home life by Windows Vista.
 Ar> 
 Ar> I didn't have crashes back then, but I had issues with resource
 Ar> consumption and OS
 Ar> degradation with use. To this day I think degradation is one of the
 Ar> biggest issues for
 Ar> a common user since performance goes down with use.
 Ar> 
 Ar> This is something that I like of Linux and the BSDs: once you set a
 Ar> machine up, the
 Ar> filesystems don't frag to self-annihilation and the core OS does not get
 Ar> polluted,
 Ar> since core OS changes are done with package managers or ports engines
 Ar> which allow to
 Ar> keep changes controlled.
 Ar> 
 Ar> 

One of the reasons I switched to Linux, was to be able to install the OS, and not have to reinstall, or have it go corrupt.  I wanted to be able to set it up, configure it, and be done, and have it last.  I had a Red Hat 7.3 install last 10 years, including lots of manual updates, manual installation of libraries.  It chugged along, working just as well the day I 'retired' it as the day I installed it.  That machine still exists in my study and still runs just fine.

I saw a thread on Reddit from someone who had a 21 year old Debian install.  He installed it 21 years ago, and just kept updating it to the next version of Debian, and hardware updates.  A 21 year old installation that still ran fine.

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