THIS is the main reason I switched to Puppy.....
Posted: Sun 27 Mar 2016, 23:37
Evening, all.
Came across this article on Infoworld.....and immediately thought of my own experiences with Ubuntu.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/304565 ... dates.html
It all worked fine when I first switched in May 2014, after XP reached EOL. (The fact that I've since re-installed XP is neither here nor there; I'm far more tech-savvy than I was even just a few years back...)
After a few months of Canonical's continuous, seemingly never-ending rounds of daily updates, it got to the point where my graphics, in particular, started crashing & freezing, completely at random.....especially every time I tried to open a browser (any browser!)
I'd been experimenting with Puppy for a couple of months at this point, and had acquired sufficient understanding of Puppy's wonderfully unique way of doing things to feel comfortable in switching completely; and wonder of wonders, the graphics problems cleared up.....just like that.
Of course, to noobs, especially those coming from Windows, continuous updates are seen as a good thing. This is comforting. This is normal. This is to be expected.....
I was just curious as to whether anybody else in our community has experienced this kind of system and/or hardware degradation, due to never-ending updates for the sake of updating.....just because they're there, and available.
Or is it just me?
Mike.![Wink :wink:](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
Came across this article on Infoworld.....and immediately thought of my own experiences with Ubuntu.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/304565 ... dates.html
It all worked fine when I first switched in May 2014, after XP reached EOL. (The fact that I've since re-installed XP is neither here nor there; I'm far more tech-savvy than I was even just a few years back...)
After a few months of Canonical's continuous, seemingly never-ending rounds of daily updates, it got to the point where my graphics, in particular, started crashing & freezing, completely at random.....especially every time I tried to open a browser (any browser!)
I'd been experimenting with Puppy for a couple of months at this point, and had acquired sufficient understanding of Puppy's wonderfully unique way of doing things to feel comfortable in switching completely; and wonder of wonders, the graphics problems cleared up.....just like that.
Of course, to noobs, especially those coming from Windows, continuous updates are seen as a good thing. This is comforting. This is normal. This is to be expected.....
![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
I was just curious as to whether anybody else in our community has experienced this kind of system and/or hardware degradation, due to never-ending updates for the sake of updating.....just because they're there, and available.
Or is it just me?
Mike.
![Wink :wink:](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)