June 6, 2025
I've been using Linux on my personal computer for a little over three months now. For the most part there haven't been any real problems, just a few friction points where Linux just isn't doing what I'm used to.
One major difference between it and Windows 7 is that Linux gets updates.
When I first installed the OS it only seemed to check for updates right after a reboot, which I thought was weird. I just updated and rebooted, and now you want to do more updates? But it was something at least, and the occasional double reboot wasn't the worst thing.
Then something changed. Now it shows updates a zillion times a day. Two separate times this morning, as I'm writing this on a random Thursday in early May. Even Android seems to limit its nag to once a day, there's a notification waiting for me when I wake up in the morning, and everything updates in the background while I'm "checking social media". Multiple times in one day is honestly kind of annoying. Yes, I could just ignore it, but you all know me. No, I can't.
Remember when we bitched at MS for pushing out updates whenever they felt like it, and they moved to the Patch Tuesday paradigm? I think that was a good compromise between immediacy and not being a pest. I think Linux should go with that.
