[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

[Faldegast]

I have no personal problems with tweaking my own Linux installation. However I also install and manage the Linux installation of around a dozen people in my family, extended family etc. I prefer that management to be limited to adding a script that keeps the computer upgraded.

Average Joe do not want a choice. They want a stable OS with regular
patches. They do not want to do full system updates or even make an
active decision when updates is around. My current solution for this is
that i use the LTS version and have a script that updates the system on
every start-up. I also have a post-install script that apt-gets
everything that my users usually want.

LTS is the only solution to this. Do not speak about a choice because
there is no choice. The non-LTS version is completely unusable in this
scenario. Average Joe is not interested in doing a full system upgrade
every 6 month. Also Average Joe is not interested in a year old browser.
This is a deadlock. There is no arguments in why Average Joe should be
forced to have either one or another. Upgrading the browser does not
make the OS unstable, even if it may make the browser temporarily
unstable. There is however good reasons to be very conservative about
kernel and library updates.

And to be honest, this is the number one reason that Ubuntu is not installed on computers you buy in the store. A edgy distribution is not acceptable from a support perspective, and a super-conservative distribution like LTS is not acceptable from a user perspective.
 		 	   		  
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