Hacker News Reader

I don't think there is one... macOS doesn't have enough functionality-breaking updates to make a significant list, and Linux/BSD-based distros generally do cleanly segmented updates to individual apps and services rather than Microsoft's great big monolithic all-or-nothing OS update bundles that touch on dozens of services at the same time.

View on HN

Here’s a quick 2 minute search on Google for each.

- https://www.macworld.com/article/671831/macos-wont-install-f...

- https://askubuntu.com/questions/1231849/how-to-fix-update-pr...

My own anecdote: When I got my M3 Pro in April and had to start afresh, it was stuck in a restart loop and had to take it to the Genius Bar; they asked me to answer ‘no’ to some question that I was answering differently. That was it. I have no idea on the root cause or why it was fixed this way. I don’t remember the exact screen where the answer was supposed to be different.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com