Sorta, but you run one command to update everything at once, and even though the system knows what GPU you have it still seems to update the driver to one thats not compatible, instead of holding that update back.
Also if it didn't warn the user when updating, the user had no idea they were pulling any trigger, especially when Linux falls back to CLI after this instead of just falling back to a basic driver.
Surely there's a way to keep the older driver on Linux, its absurdly easy on Windows.
Windows doesnt drop to CLI and break if the graphics driver is missing. But also GPU driver updates are not forced on you just by updating the system.
It makes me wonder why the package still auto updates if it detects you're using the driver that would be removed, surely it could do some checks first?
Would be vastly preferable to it just breaking the system.
Windows doesn't force update your driver and remove support though, and even if it did it won't drop you to some CLI, it will still work.
Gotcha, that does make it significantly more difficult to block outgoing connections from some new executable, as most are likely to use port 443 like everything else does.
I'll have to research some more, I have Fedora on my laptop and it would be nice to have a comparable firewall.
Does the firewall on Linux work like Windows where you allow/block by process or executable name? Because that will stop malware or apps connecting to places you don't like.
Thats bizarre, you'd think it would set up a persistent saves directory and link them to it.
Zen is what I use, there's also Waterfox.
Yeah stuff like that, but also the locally synced copy I would not trust no matter what as really any sync software can suddenly delete or corrupt files. Best to have at least 2 actual backups in place that are versioned and done daily or every few hours.
I saw some news about it awhile back, and didn't remember full details so was asking. Just going to delete the comment since its being taken the wrong way.
If Linux is going to be usable by the average person on windows it needs to do something better than booting to a CLI and making the user figure out how to manually downgrade a package.