Eh. I haven’t had issues for a few months and I back up my files on a weekly basis and -Syu once or twice a month. Worst case scenario, I’ll just reinstall and restore from backup.
Also, I mainly use Discover for high level stuff like browsers and IDEs.
IMO it’s overblown. If you even have an issue at all, 99.99% of the time it’s user error. And to mitigate that, you just use timeshift with BTRFS and snapshots on GRUB.
On the flip side, reading about an exploited vulnerability in a package and then realizing your machine isn’t affected because Debian has an outdated package in it’s repo
You’re not wrong. That said my broke ass can’t afford cutting edge hardware so most of the time it doesn’t matter.
When it does, I can usually compensate with either a NixOs profile install, a container of some sort (or Flatpak), or just building the emefferr from source.
Eh. I haven’t had issues for a few months and I back up my files on a weekly basis and -Syu once or twice a month. Worst case scenario, I’ll just reinstall and restore from backup.
Also, I mainly use Discover for high level stuff like browsers and IDEs.
As a Debian slut this level of sweating over updates is wild to me.
IMO it’s overblown. If you even have an issue at all, 99.99% of the time it’s user error. And to mitigate that, you just use timeshift with BTRFS and snapshots on GRUB.
Yeah but imagine reading about a new release of something and it appearing in your updates the same day. Shiny new software every day is addicting.
On the flip side, reading about an exploited vulnerability in a package and then realizing your machine isn’t affected because Debian has an outdated package in it’s repo
You’re not wrong. That said my broke ass can’t afford cutting edge hardware so most of the time it doesn’t matter.
When it does, I can usually compensate with either a NixOs profile install, a container of some sort (or Flatpak), or just building the emefferr from source.