Some older MacBooks stop working after Big Sur upgrade – Computer – News

Arch Linux user here. No. Long live rolling releases.

Slightly more serious:
For macOS and Windows, a clean install that ends immediately in the new desired version is always cleaner than an upgrade, but there is a time investment in return.

Recently I had a GPD Pocket that was going to upgrade from Windows 10 to the 20H2 version. He was working on that for about 4 hours. That’s okay, except Windows can’t do a full upgrade without user intervention. During the upgrade it will manually ask for a restart. After the last restart, the device turned itself off. Then turned it on again, and Windows Update was still running for ~ 20 minutes. After that a new update was ready.

So what Windows lacks is an ‘upgrade and update everything now, and reboot as many times as you want until you are completely done’ option. Even after the latest update has been completed, you will still see higher CPU usage in the background for a while, which is probably due to Windows rebuilding things. In terms of that, the upgrade option in Linux is a relief, because you just know when it will be ready. Also, most Linux distributions can do with a single reboot when there is a kernel upgrade.

[Reactie gewijzigd door The Zep Man op 16 november 2020 10:07]

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