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> I miss the days when I could plan ahead for new versions, so I could time them to have the least possible disruption to my life.

That's one of the many advantages of desktop apps: unless it's a bad player that forces the update down your throat, it is you who control if and when to upgrade, not the vendor, who may or may not have their interests aligned with yours.

(It's a bit similar on the mobile if you disable automatics updates, provided that you can ignore that obnoxious red dot forever.)




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