Re: gnome-software and release upgrade?

On 6/11/26 1:15 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 06:36:31PM +0930, Tim via users wrote:
>> On Thu, 2026-06-11 at 01:11 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>>> Fun telling the customer "oh it always does that.
>>> It crashes the first time".
>>
>> Windows users are used to that.  So used to it that they don't question
>> endless screw-ups, it's par for the course.  They have no ideas that
>> it's crap programming that crashes, computers shouldn't be doing it.
> 
> In early 'C' days I had to deliver a working program that happened to
> dump core at exit.  Try telling the customer the program is OK.  Only
> happens on your computer, not ours.
> 
> Turned out a struct definition was missing a semi-colon terminator.
> Followed by page and half of comment then "main(...)" with out a
> return type.
> 
> The development system had no problem with main trying to return a
> 60 byte structure but the custumer's machine did.
> 

I can write a program, spend three days figuring out any
and every way a user can screw it up, set it down in front
of the user, and in three microseconds the users hands me
my lunch.

I feel your pain!
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