Linux

48165 readers

885 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
No misinformation
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

285

which linux distro do you NOT like, and why? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

405 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You basically have no control. It updates as many times as it wants, when it wants. You can try to adjust some timers to change the window when forced updates are rolled out, but can never tell it to NOT update something.

This is incorrect:

snap refresh --hold=forever

In general, I'd advise you to do a bit of research beforehand when giving advice...

Edit: Downvotes for factual information? Really?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The --hold feature was introduced with snapd v2.58 which was released as recently as Dec 1, so less than 9 months ago. So I would consider this a relatively new feature.

Furthermore, as best as I can tell from the documentation, there isn't even a way to configurably hold updates in general or for a specific package like can be done with apt-preferences; refresh.hold only allows 90 days out.

I think it is a perfectly valid criticism that the snap developers didn't implement this feature at all until well into the life of the product and then, even then, done begrudgingly at best evidenced by the minimal implementation.

Now, I feel like I did my research, but feel free to let me know if there's something I can do better or if you have any other general life advice for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, this is a very good reply, and it would have been wonderful, when the original reply would have been similar.