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[noir_lord]

A good point and one of those strange troughs we get stuck in, every application having it's own different incompatible update system is clearly a bad idea but solving it requires the co-operation of disparate teams each of whom consider the amount of pain it causes end users as minor.

Honestly Fedora (and arch, ubuntu, debian and so on) simply spoils me, everything I need to do my job is a `dnf install` away and it just works.

I'm reminded of that every time I have to interact with a windows desktop how poorly the other (majority) side have it.

[tsimionescu → noir_lord]

The flip side is stuff like Windows getting Firefox updates months ahead of Ubuntu (not sure if Fedora addresses this somehow), back in the day.

There is something to be said about letting application developers control the update rhythm of their application's releases.

[aibara → tsimionescu]

Ubuntu gets Firefox updates within a day or two of release. It's been like that for years.

[cmurf → aibara]

Same with Fedora.