XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: pothead@snakebite.com   
      
   On 2025-11-25, rbowman  wrote:   
   > 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 but IT finally noticed I was running some weird outdated Win11 version and   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.   
      
   I have not run Windows on my own PC in years but a friend of mine was   
   a member of the program and it was doing weird things to his system   
   like "updating" newer packages with older ones.   
   He finally got things stabilized and dropped out of the program.   
      
      
   --   
   pothead   
   Give a Democrat a fish and he'll eat all day.   
   Teach a Democrat to fish and......   
   He'll steal your rod   
   Take your wallet   
   Assault the fish &   
   Blame Trump.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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