Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Typical Mac users Date: 23 Apr 2026 18:47:14 GMT Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <87qzo73oeq.fsf@rpi3> <10sa2pm$24a8s$3@dont-email.me> <8X6GR.974697$4wI6.165854@fx24.iad> <10sb1na$2eidm$1@dont-email.me> <10sb8o2$2gl78$5@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net SCqOO1ykH7UEauwnBUCP3Q9YouilvjSMZlKZjSbCd60gaLJTEi Cancel-Lock: sha1:fDx8Nei1761M2Dd8LMb1KipdXnQ= sha256:iBngnOILY/P01Kh/u9tiOr50S21H4vZTifAl3DuY5dU= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:85862 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:144919 On Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:26:49 +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > As for the other remarks I am not constantly repairing Linux installs to > keep them working, and my Linux and Windows installs have never ‘offed > themselves’, whatever that means exactly. I've overwritten Linux systems with other distros but have had few problems upgrading an existing distro. I did have to download a new Broadcom driver when Linux Mint went to a newer kernel and a Fedora upgrade to 43 introduced Python 3.14 that PySide6 didn't support. The only Windows reinstall was when I was on the Insider network and they juggled the 'channels' to Dev and Canary and what I had wouldn't update. Quite a few people on the forum had the same problem.