12-23-2016, 05:25 AM
Not impressed by this article.
Mainly because he's using updating and upgrading interchangeably, lumping everything together and coming up with a general black and white judgment without making any distinction between updating, upgrading, security fix, bug fix in general, feature upgrade, etc.
In my books there is only one MUST for a user - after backup that is - and that is applying security fixes. Anything else is optional, and the well known advice is here for a reason, if you don't need it and/or if it's not broken, don't touch it.
The last time I had a Mint system running there was a semi automated updating process in place, warning users about the need to update their system, even indicating whether it's security related or not. So what is he talking about?
My 2c
Mainly because he's using updating and upgrading interchangeably, lumping everything together and coming up with a general black and white judgment without making any distinction between updating, upgrading, security fix, bug fix in general, feature upgrade, etc.
In my books there is only one MUST for a user - after backup that is - and that is applying security fixes. Anything else is optional, and the well known advice is here for a reason, if you don't need it and/or if it's not broken, don't touch it.
The last time I had a Mint system running there was a semi automated updating process in place, warning users about the need to update their system, even indicating whether it's security related or not. So what is he talking about?
My 2c