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~~i have created a short questionnaire, regarding how GNU/Linux users secure their system. if you are somewhat knowledgeful on this topic and willing to share, i would appreciate if you would fill out my questionnaire~~

okay, so, my research is finished. here are the results:

The "other" distributions include: NixOS (8x), Gentoo (4x), Slackware (1x), Void Linux (1x) or a combination of multiple distributions

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Wtf I'm the only one who waits months to update?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

if you don't mind me asking: why? in my experience, keeping the system up to date is usually effortless

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't wanna restart, and I don't really care enough

I update when I think I have nothing else to do or when it's important enough (new Nvidia drivers, a remote execution patch, new gnome update)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

oh, i forgot gnome forces you to reboot after each update (plasma just installs the updates in the background after you ask it to)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

it's good practice to restart either way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's me, tbh it's annoying to install update if there are 5 or 10 packages to update.
I just wait until it show much more update, so......usually i waited 3 month max

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Me and my 4000 packages waiting to update

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

4000 packages update ???? nah....it's rookie number bro, just wait loooooong enough so when you updated your system will crashed or show tons of error message after reboot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Never experienced this