Chris's Wiki :: blog/tech/PeopleDislikeChanges Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/PeopleDislikeChanges?atomcommentsDWiki2017-05-14T16:28:57ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/tech/PeopleDislikeChanges.By Anon on /blog/tech/PeopleDislikeChangestag:CSpace:blog/tech/PeopleDislikeChanges:980686326f9584120620da5010cdccf169e427f0Anon<div class="wikitext"><p>But nonetheless software is learning to update itself rapidly. People might hate it but Windows 10 aggressively updates itself. Windows 2012 admonishes you when it has gone for updates for too long. Chrome and Firefox routinely fetch later versions of themselves and ask you to restart them. Some Linux distros have switched to making the distro at least check for updates regularly and then telling you about them when you ssh in. iOS and Android like to update pieces frequently too. There are cases where despite its suboptimality the perpetual update model is "good enough"...</p>
<p>Also in a perfect world everything is backported and supported forever but people are struggling with a subscription model and backporting only becomes increasingly more expensive as time moves on.</p>
<p>I think there has to be the inherent tension. Perhaps the best thing to do is "regular updates by default but moderately difficult check only and a much more difficult no checking at all" model? That way we get a sort of mass immunisation effect: most people are immune but so long as the number who skip are small things will work out fine anyway...</p>
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