XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:36:27 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
      
   > Then, with Windows 11, all that simplicity has gone. Now the various   
   > levels of the Insider program might get features which, in the end,   
   > never ship; or conversely, they might not get to see some new feature   
   > that is officially supposed to be shipping.   
      
   There are now 4 channels. Before Windows 11 was released I joined the   
   Insiders dev channel to test code I was working on. My intent was to   
   install it on my backup Windows 10 box but somehow I wound up with it on   
   my main development box.   
      
   Mostly it was no problem although they did manage to break SQL Server on   
   one update. For some strange reason developers weren't too happy. It went   
   along for a couple of years without too many hiccups but then they split   
   the channels into 'dev' and 'canary' and I would up in some limbo where   
   the updates would fail. That wasn't a real problem since it still worked   
   but IT finally noticed I was running some weird outdated Win11 version and   
   I had to reinstall.   
      
   It wasn't as intense as running Rawhide and only updated every two or   
   three days.   
      
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