Save 2 seconds boot time, to spend countless hours tweaking and repairing

- What a real update screen looks like in linux:
  
  Let's compare the update process when you want to shutdown your computer:
  Windows:
  Doesn't leave you the choice: your getting updated now, deal with it
  Starts to update
  Reboots, update for 2 minutes (wasn't that bad)
  Reboots again, updates for 15 minutes (come on man, I'm gonna miss my train !)
  Reboots AGAIN ! continue and eventually finishes the update
  Shutdown
  Fedora:
  We have downloaded updates, do you want to Install them before shutdown?
  Not this time, thank you
  Shutdown Or if you do let it install, reboots always just once, updates 2 minutes, done.
  If you have disk encryption or bitlocker, you just can't let the PC update unattended. Not knowing how many times windows needs to reboot for this update is hella annoying.
  
  it was an odd choice for fedora to default to reboots for system updates. I can dnf update to avoid it but I keep forgetting.
  I think they're preparing everyone for immutable installations but they're a long way off from that.

Having the control over your system at least gives you the full ability to tweak things. I've been daily driving you know what for a couple of years now and have had no breaks even with multiple updates per week. It does the usual web browsing, listening to music, and gaming on Steam with no problems whatsoever.
- I was absolutely gobsmacked that I could play hogwartz on the platform which must not be named. If it can play this game...
  
  It worked back when I tried it, but I didn't finish (or even play long) to confirm fully. Trail Out was impossible to complete when I tried it. -Stuck me half way through the game with an unbeatable time trial. -Wasted hours on it, beat it first try in Windows. (One of many reasons I try to protect normies from evangelists)
  -Respect!
- Often those 'tweaks' are bogus or not worth your time, often resulting in worse performance and higher maintenance. -Also something normies wouldn't bother with. That said, it's fine to post benchmark results comparing your before and after here if you wish.
  Intention is to protect normies. Hobbyist use doesn't bother me. Hope you understand.

You press update and suddenly you're spending the whole weekend trying to get everything working again. I wish a massive company would just control everything so I don't have to be inconvenienced
- I did a software update for a service on a system recently. Little did I know that the updated software requires Python 3.9+, and I had Python 3.8.
  Took me over an hour to get the stupid program running again.
  
  Oof. anecdote: Python seems like a PITA on both systems!

What on earth are you tweaking and repairing for so many hours?
- My shortlist, off the top of my head:
  Trying to solve screen tearing with Nvidia drivers.
  Trying to get LightDM to show me my god damned profile photo on login (still have not succeeded)
  Debugging a problem where my DE fails to come up on login unless I manually hop to TTY7 myself
  Endlessly forgetting which of the two or three different directories my .desktop files actually live in, and navigating the poorly-documented format for modifying them
  Fixing apps in my taskbar showing generic Wayland icons
  Trying to have any consistent success at all with Bluetooth
  Trying to figure out which fucking audio stack my distro actually uses so I can know for sure whether the magic incantation on StackExchange will fail because it's for the wrong stack or fail because it's the correct stack and the stack is garbage
  python2 and python3 symlink hell
  Faffing around with WINE settings
  I thrive in the pain. But yes, there is plenty of pain.
  
  Now here's someone who uses Linux. 😆
  
  I think Python is a PITA on Windows too.
- Not OP, but I’ve been trying to allow an external drive to be written to from a computer in a different room on the same network and I swear to god this shit is impossible.
  
  I do this via ssh / fusefs and it works completely fine. What are you using?
- Python dependencies while having to use python2 and python3 at the same time
  
  Only problem I've bumped into with that is that the "python" command doesn't work out of box on most newer Linux machines. It definitely doesn't take hours nor any repairs to install "python3-is-python" and get that working either (if I care).

- That's what LTS and unattended-upgrades is for
- Your submission in "Save 2 seconds boot time, to spend countless hours tweaking and repairing" was removed for off topic.

I thought "saving 2 seconds of boot for the cost of [endless pain]" was a dig on systemd and I respected how brave OP was to speak out against fans of The Blob.
Then it was about Linux in general and I wonder whether OP saw a good stable distro before Lennart's Tumour started growing in it. Even upstart was faster, and easier to configure.

You don't have to, OP. You could just accept those defaults as they are and enjoy the system.
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Yeah, I didn't think so.

Free up your time or free up your spare time?

Upstream those repairs! Be the hero you want to be