[sircastor]

Every couple of years Apple does something that makes me think "maybe it's time to try to do Linux". I'm competent with Linux. I use it daily at work and can manage the cat majority of the time. I have however, on occasion dealt with a catastrophic failure, after some normal suggested upgrade. Catastrophic as in I can't recover from it, or the best suggestion is to roll the kernel back, which is a very foreign concept.

Still, I might try the next time I'm up for getting a new laptop. I'm not pleased with the way Apple is going with their laptops, and I'm not interested in Windows.

[roryisok]

> and I'm not interested in Windows

That seems to be the general consensus around here. If you're a dev, you either run MacOS or Linux. As a dev who runs Windows and MacOS I don't really get this. Windows 10 is excellent for dev work. I understand there are privacy issues that make people not want to use MS products but from a purely functional perspective it's a great User experience.

[hocuspocus]

I use Windows 10 exclusively at home and it's indeed pretty good but there are unfortunately a few things that would stop me at work:

* There's now a major upgrade every six months and Microsoft still hasn't figured out how to make the process reliable.

* Chocolatey is good but the available packages are sometimes lacking. Linux distros have always been miles ahead in this regard, and nowadays with snap I can even find third party software that wasn't packaged before.

[roryisok]

Actually I find choco to be miles better than apt-get. With apt-get I often have to add repos before I can install some app (usually something which fixes some basic part of Linux). This, for me, negates the whole point of having a package manager. What good is it if I have to tell it where to look?

[vetinari]

If it is in third-party repo, it means that the distribution maintainers do not maintain/test it. A third party does.

When that third-party package replaces something that is a part of the system, you are going to have a difficult upgrade next time the new distro release is out, unless the third party ensures smooth transition. Do you have that trust in them?

[roryisok]

Nope. I'd rather use windows than worry that I'll break my OS by installing a third party app

[vetinari]

You can break windows by installing third party apps too. Or by well-aimed edit in registry.

All systems can be broken by incompetent user with root or administrator password.

[ne01]

In what distro did you experience the upgrade problems?