Every day NMS has to update. Is this because I run it on Linux or is it just how NMS is? Today it was a 4,6 GB update

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    2 months ago

    Welcome to Linux. Where you’ll spend more time monitoring and updating your dependencies than actually using the software.

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      2 months ago

      Sorry - that is not true. Actually i have never done that (at least not manually), and don’t even know what updating dependencies means. It runs all updates automatically and has not failed once. I have run Linux for half a year, and only used the terminal a couple of times to adjust some weird thing that did not work out of the box. Linux has come a long way!

      What took the longest time, was getting to learn new software instead of the usual suspects, like Photoshop and DaVinci

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      2 months ago

      I’ve been on Linux full time for over 3 years - the only time I deal with dependencies is during my twice-monthly manual updates and new app installs, and even then I’ve only run into conflicts that required me to do more than hit y/n a couple of times, and they were easy fixes. My updates every 2 weeks take on average less than 5 mins total, most of it stuff downloading and installing while I continue to do other stuff.

      If you’re having a shit time with dependencies frequently, you’re probably doing something wrong. Switch to nixos if it’s that much of a problem, no more dependency issues.