Re: Many updates

Hello Daniel

As a longtime MacOS user, I’d point out that the way that updates are distributed has changed over time as the Internet became an ‘always on’ resource that can poll and push tiny patches.

I still remember laboriously downloading 4-6 floppies worth with monolithic x.x.1 updates in the System 6 days, where you got your bug fixes if and when you learned that a new Macintosh was released. Many if not most of us where still on dialup downloading CD images too.

The internet has also caused the increased frequency of both security exploits and their remedies.

We live in a different era and notice the inexorable shift to a greater or lesser extent.

Salut

Vaughn

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> On Apr 17, 2018, at 10:15 AM, Daniel Drijard <[email protected]> wrote:
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>    I received 19 updates from Apple since the beginning of 2018, though coming by groups of 4. This is equivalent to about one per week. I have no experience with Linux sending updates, too many? Your email warns me that this will be worse from Linux. This is an argument to consider before I decide to switch.
> 
> Daniel
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>> On 17 04 2018, at 14:09, Markus Winter <drmarkuswinter-gM/[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 
>>> On 17. Apr 2018, at 13:57, Daniel Drijard <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> The indecent frequency of updates from Apple induces me to switch to another brand. 
>>> […]
>>> Practically, I consider switching to Linux (evidently NOT to Windows ). 
>> 
>> So because Apple has too many updates you intent to switch to a system with even more frequent updates?
>> 
>> Don’t get me wrong, Linux can be fun, and by all means “good luck” to you, but that is one of the dumbest “reasons” for switching that I have ever heard …
>> 
>> Markus
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>> Sent from my iPad
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