• CabbageRelish
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    21 hours ago

    Windows also does most of its updating silently while handling its major version upgrades a lot more elegantly.

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      13 hours ago

      When you are neck-deep in a (possibly mult-day) project where a restart would lose your place, I wouldn’t really call this ‘elegant’…

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        12 hours ago

        Yes, saving is definitely not a thing in any app…

        What I was specifically referencing there though is that Linux distro upgrade installers universally suck AFAIK. They break left and right and when they do they basically take out the system. Otherwise, Windows’ behavior there does suck a fair bit