From: commodorejohn@gmail.com   
      
   On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 02:05:42 -0500   
   c186282  wrote:   
      
   > To a degree, Linux has been taken in by the M$ "update fever"   
   > bullshit.   
   >   
   > A push for too-frequent updates can mean that not enough time to   
   > find/squash BUGS will be there.   
   >   
   > Take it a bit slower, get it RIGHT.   
      
   "Release early, release often" is an ESR-ism, initially, and has deeper   
   roots in the FOSS world than MS-land (Redmond only adopted it in the   
   Win7 era) - but I agree, it's taken on the quality of a monomania in   
   the last decade-plus.   
      
   (This seems to be the way of things, with anything in the realm of soft-   
   ware development methodology; first it's a truism, then it's received   
   wisdom, then it's a religion, then it's an Industry, then something   
   else comes along and supplants it. Just look at what "agile" mutated   
   into, compared to the original manifesto.)   
      
   Obviously, there's cases and reasons to hustle critical fixes out into   
   the field as quick as you reasonably can - but the endless churn of new   
   releases under the Cult of the Constant Update is deeply annoying. At   
   least you can *generally* roll your eyes and disable notifications -   
   unless you're stuck with the Filezilla fascists.   
      
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