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Or asked the other way around: How long do you keep your servers running without installing any software updates?

update means something like

sudo dnf update

or something ....

apt-get upgrade
apt-get update
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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's... Not how it works.. Debian is "stable" not "secure". You use Debian so that is easier to run updates frequently since they'll be unlikely to break things.

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If I wanted to run updates frequently I would run arch lmao. Even if I did apt update every day, debian stable doesn't get that many updates.

I could just run auto-update but meh.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If I wanted to run updates frequently I would run arch lmao. Even if I did apt update every day, debian stable doesn’t get that many updates.

You're not updating for features you're updating for bug and security fixes. That's why Debian stable doesn't have many updates. But the ones they do are typically important.

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I know. Until I get ransomware'd and my nudes leaked, I won't care 💅🏻✨

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz -1 points 8 months ago

I guess people smoke because they don't know smoking causes cancer ;3

[–] lastweakness@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are you talking about desktop use?

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

No, my home server. My desktop and laptop both have arch, because I do interact with them more often.