(On Wed, 2020-03-11 at 4:31 PM, Christopher wrote)
> I am just curious why people stay on old versions of
> Fedora like say FC30 instead of upgrading to 31?
I'm one of those people.
Several years ago, I worked for a contractor for the US National Weather
Service. I worked on software called AWIPS, the software used in all
National Weather Service forecast offices to produce forecasts,
advisories, watches, and warnings. It was "mission-critical". The
operating system was Redhat Enterprise. We followed a policy of waiting
a full year after a new Enterprise release was released before upgrading
operational workstations. I saw good wisdom in this. Though a new
release was thoroughly tested by Redhat before releasing it, we knew
some fundamental principles of software testing:
- there's always another bug.
- it's not possible to completely test any non-trivial software.
So any newly-released version of Redhat Enterprise (or any other
operating system) was guaranteed to still have bugs. By waiting the
extra year, the number (and severity?) of bugs should be substantially
less.
I have only my one home workstation; no cell/mobile phone. Moreover, I
have no training or professional experience in sys.admin.; I'm merely a
home user, as my handle suggests. I use my workstation mainly for
personal business, not to a significant degree for gaming or social
networking. Thus for me personally, this workstation is "mission
critical". So I apply what I learned from my AWIPS days. Fedora is an
excellent operating system, and I believe each release is well tested
before it goes out. But it's huge and complex (like all operating
systems). It still has bugs. So I wait about 5 1/2 months before
upgrading to the new release. Even then it still has bugs, but fewer,
and hopefully less impactful. Less risk. Other people who have
fallbacks can take more risk and upgrade sooner if they so desire, if
that's what they believe best for them.
Welcome to Fedora. I hope you like it; I do (overall much better than
windows). As for upgrading, do what you believe works best for you.
That's what I do.
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