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  • I’ve diverged from Debian for desktop use for a few years now (no particular good reason, just for fun) but I have extended family with about the same affinity to updates as your dad.

    I think automatic updates for regular end users are nice nowdays, especially if you don’t customise stuff too much (DEs, wm, things like that). And even if some issues ever occur in return you get a continuously up-to-date and safer system (imho worth it). And its not like not-updating os solves the issues, it just postpones them, potentially snowballs them (and in that case I just reinstall it).
    I switched my dad to Tumbleweed like 3 years ago & set weekly automatic updates, literally no issues with it.

    As for serves, Im all for automatic updates in home environment, since my kinda worst case scenario is rolling back to a previous snapshot.
    Maybe I could set backup services on a separate node with delayed updates … but I need more motivation (a clusterfuck) for that.




  • Yes.

    But in the last 10+ years the

    just set it up for them

    is what popular distros just do out of the box, and they do it well.

    Not new to Linux but recently I bought a new PC for dad and installed Tumbleweed … and besides installing it (there is a fully automated default settings option even for that) I only configured the wallpaper image (bcs he likes it even it changed every hour or whatever). Not to mention how up-to-date it is and how seamlessly the updates are managed. Oh, and I had to manually install Signal & some Firefoxy extensions, but thats like just user stuff on basically any os.






  • Dont do things that aren’t necessary.
    The name is adequate, it performs it’s function, its there.

    Feels like consumerism, always “innovating” for the sake if being new and flashy.

    Oh, wait, SUSE said that? Weird.
    I guess if it’s a (kind of) must, tho that makes me weary of what’s SUSEs plan that they would benefit from this. It can’t be just stupid manager stuff, right? :D

    That said, I submit open-me-SUSSY for consideration.
    I believe most will assume correctly what the general idea for the logo would be, so no need to sketch it.




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    ProxMox.

    But also, in case if your only data backup plan for them is raid 1 - in such cases I prefer to have only one HDD in the machine & use the other one as a backup on a separate machine, preferably in another location. I find it that the missing 12h (or whatever) of the latest data overshadows the (lower) probability of losing all the data (fire, flood, burglary, weirdly specific accidents, etc).

    And ofc you can select what to backup/rsync or not.

    Eg Immich, after return to operation the apps will just resync any missing pics from the last backup.

    Also with two systems you don’t have to care that much about drive quality. Im now buying Exos 22+TB bcs why not. But when I needed quiet drives I bought Red Plus (not the regular Red ones, nor the Pro ones), they are even quieter than Exos, but smol.