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crimsonalucard on May 21, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The desktop and the developer

(2) I don't want to update my whole operating system to update applications;

There are some popular linux distros out there that have rolling updates so you never have to reinstall the os.

pjmlp on May 21, 2014 [–]

Which tend to break the whole OS every now and then.

mhitza on May 24, 2014 | [–]

Had that happen once around the time Fedora pushed systemd (version 13/14 I think), no other upgrading issues since.

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