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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
How does one run business software without updating? Quicken and turbo tax change daily, sometimes just fixing the fatal error they installed yesterday.
Then there's the mandatory win 10 uprgade.........
Even pihole wants to update all the time. That one I can turn off
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I do taxes online, so only a browser is necessary. Updates are handled by the tax site.
Commercial software constantly updates, partly because it's such a juicy target to attack, and partly because it wants to lock things down and avoid re-use by other users without charge, and partly because it wants to scare users into the fear that they must upgrade to stay "safe" or "current" or "supported" and must not migrate to some other firm's software, or heaven forbid, to open source software, which is condemned as "insecure" or "unsupported".
I used to work in a Lotus Notes quality systems software house doing support. I've seen it all. A Windows and Win software user never knows whether the last update was real or bogus, or inadvertently flawed. You have NO control over your own computer or OS once updates are enabled. They are completely unknown alterations. And yet they are mandatory for avoiding the latest threat.
With open source, you know exactly what you are getting, as do thousands of others, including developers. It's open code
The massively layered result of constant Win updating becomes an easy security target itself. Patches on top of patches on top of patches.
The flip side of open source, is that you yourself are responsible for decisions, and you need to learn a little more about how things wortk than a typical blind user of whatever program update installs itself on a locked commercial OS computer.
Not everybody can do that, or wants to, so then the issues and expense of commercial OS's are necessary to put up with.
Browsers, in any OS do need continual updating. Open source ones are more subject to scrutiny than closed, nevertheless.