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    Comment #32487178

    Nah, when Windows installs new hardware it doesn't uninstall the old hardware. Good luck on the license front though, since Microsoft has decided you can't move around the item you…

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    Comment #32487124

    That's what I was thinking. Good luck getting all the random crap you have installed to update without choking on EOL'd packages, or various packages that have new config formats, …

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    Comment #32487077

    s/Linux // Windows isn't any better. I don't have enough Mac experience but I doubt it has some magic bullet.

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    Comment #32487016

    No, it wouldn't, because that versatility can be attained by... not using the installer, the exact same as the situation without an installer . An installer, if anything, improves …

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    Comment #32486988

    They're talking about an installer for Arch itself (which could and should support the bare minimum options that most users want), which is what it didn't have until recently; not …

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    Comment #32486918

    If you have a rootkit that you're concerned about copying around, that can somehow persist through pretty much everything on the system being upgraded at some point or another... y…

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    Comment #32486885

    glibc updates have recently broken lots of Electron software (and probably other stuff using similar sandboxing), by using a new syscall (clone3? or something) to implement some li…

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    Comment #32486856

    That's great! But what it doesn't say is what's actually relevant: how much time you spent maintaining it in that period. Stuff being obviously/"disruptively" broken usually has an…