But sometimes it works, or throws a different error …

Hm, immutable distros change the game quite a bit. I don’t see how Debian could match that without introducing an immutable version of Debian, so it’s not really something that the people in charge of the upgrade process can solve.

Which distro would that be that does seamless major release upgrades?

IMO, it’s fundamentally impossible to make this seamless, especially on a fixed release distro.

Why the hell would you want major release upgrades in unattended upgrades? This is exactly what most people specifically don’t want their OS to do.

That’s cool and all. But, to give some context as to where I’m coming from: for the last 2-3 years or so, I receive automatic major release updates in the background. Sometimes, it takes me up to a week before I even notice it. I wish to see the day that Debian is released from its UnattendedUpgrades shackles and can ascend into pure bliss.

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You can easily disable or uninstall unattended upgrades, and I would definitely have noticed if Debian’s unattended upgrades automatically did major release upgrades on its own …

I’m too paranoid on security to consider that 😅. But I’m glad it works out for you.

IMO that’s not an issue at all, both Debian and Ubuntu are very good about providing security updates for their oldstable releases. Maybe your desktop environment or text editor isn’t going to receive updates anymore, but I have a really hard time imagining a relevant scenario where that makes a difference for security.

True, there are legitimate reasons why most people use Ubuntu or a Ubuntu-derivative on desktop, rather than straight Debian.That said, last time I did a major release upgrade on a desktop Debian system, I did maybe half of these steps and it still went without issue. The only issue that ever comes up for me when I upgrade Debian or Ubuntu is that things change how they work and I need to redo some of my configuration to account for it, and I do so much custom configuration that it can be kind of PITA sometimes. But that wouldn’t be any different on any other distro.

two years feels like the sweet spot.

I’m a big fan of skipping over one major release when upgrading, that way I get 4 (Ubuntu) or 5-6 (Debian) years of bliss. Software like webbrowsers, yt-dlp or Signal that needs to be really fresh is better installed through pip or flatpak anyway.

TIL. That definitely puts me off, like WTF? How can you fuck up a perfectly upgradable Debian like that?

LOL

I already edited my comment to say “one of the first” 3 hours ago.

Also yes, I consider every linux DE that isn’t Gnome or KDE “smaller”.

Neat!

Mint’s relative lethargy at migrating to wayland has been increasingly becoming a sore point due to the sheer practical difference it makes

I mean, pretty much every desktop environment that’s not Gnome or KDE has been dragging its feet. AFAIK Cinnamon is on track to be *the first smaller DE with full wayland support. I understand that you don’t want to wait if you’re actually interested in some of wayland’s features, though.

*one of

This again? You need some variety, dude. At least switch up in which community you post these. And it still doesn’t make sense to post this in c/programming.

!https://lemmy.org/post/5061301

!https://lemmy.org/post/4851122

!https://lemmy.org/post/4848200

IDK, the hops taste that most popular beer brands have is kinda similar, too.

If there’s an alcoholic drink that’s akin to horse piss, surely that’s beer? Beer drinkers who don’t like a specific brand always say that it tastes like piss, the net result being that for any given brand, there’s a significant amount of people who claim that it tastes like piss.

Assuming that human piss is similar to horse piss. You sound like you know more about horse piss than I do, OP.

Especially with games where it runs fine in the starting area, but performance tanks once you enter The City.

I really hope they won’t completely fuck it up, though, it would be a really neat feature.

Neat. It’s going to be interesting how they will solve the issue of different quality settings - I don’t care about FPS at “ultra” settings, usually it’s more important how the FPS are at low settings before you have to take desperate measures like turning down the resolution, completely turning off antialiasing, using upscaling etc. that have an extremely negative effect on graphics fidelity.

Also, two games running at an average of 60FPS might give very different experiences depending on how consistent the FPS are.

NixOS has a lot of visibility, probably because the basic concept is so appealing to people who like to tinker with their OS. But its user base is still tiny.

I bet you can rig up something microphone-based, there’s tons of software nowadays for analyzing audio, and you don’t need to run the analyzing software on the device with the microphone anyway. Though the analyzing would likely take a little bit longer that you’d want it to.

No, it increases by the amount of showers. Lots of people just don’t wash often, they don’t necessarily replace each bath with a shower.