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on Linux, is there a way to switch off "Tamagotchi Mode"? specifically i mean the thing where you set up linux exactly how you want, and every 2 weeks you run package updates and some obscure part of your system which you didn't even know existed now no longer works the way you set it up, and you have to spend 90 minutes fixing it, and it's always a different thing, and this happens every 2 weeks, forever. how do you switch that off? (ideally in a way where it won't switch back on after 2 weeks)
@jk this has happened to me exactly twice in 15 years, so I don't know what you're doing that's making it a biweekly thing
@bdf2121cc3334b35b6ecda66e471 i do a lot of different things on my computer maybe? when i talk to linux people about what they do on their computer it's mostly some server-side dev stuff and a text editor or something like that, and they don't customize their desktop environment much, or use any obscure or specialist hardware. on the easy path, stuff generally just works. whereas i use linux because i *need* to have a weird setup, and so i suffer the consequences
@jk I mean, I've been gaming on multi-monitor set-ups since Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, but otherwise I wouldn't know what counts as esoteric hardware/software.
I did just read your other post about having a specific version of .exe files next to specific versions of .DLL files, and just not updating them so they continue working. It might be a bit fiddly to install and set-up the environment, but you can get a similar effect with Debian-based Linuxes using `dpkg --root=<dir>`.
@bdf2121cc3334b35b6ecda66e471 i think the issue is just the entire way software is distributed on linux is just kind of flawed, technically and culturally. the LSB directory structure, with data split across top level bin/lib/var directories, essentially requires a package manager to keep everything organized, whereas the windows "single dir inside Program Files" or mac ".app file which is also just a directory really" is kind of what snap/flatpak and even docker have ended up recreating
@jk @bdf2121cc3334b35b6ecda66e471 This might be a hot take, but you could argue that the package manager is one of the main things that define a Linux distro
This is a difference of Linux from Windows, a package manager where your distro maintainers compile and serve most software