https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402860
--- Comment #7 from John <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #6) > Yes, in principle this is a thing that I think makes sense. In KDE Linux we > let you roll back your whole OS for various reasons; letting you to the same > for apps it basically just re-using that same logic. Nice to hear a positive attitude and example about this too. Even though I don't blame the developer or users that I replied to for his opinion argument in a bit other direction. I haven't KDE Linux yet and probably I never will as I'm very happy with Debian, especially because I use it with the 'testing' repository which is now pretty up do date with KDE releases. But one thing that I hate in Debian and probably in more than 90% of the Linux distros is that they don't have a back / snapshot and a restore / rollback system when something bad or unwanted happens, which is normal to happen eventually. And instead they just put everything on you and blame you for it. Like: You upgraded that! You installed that! You didn't upgraded that! You didn't installed that! You changed that! You didn't change that! You made a FrankenDebian! Since Debian and many other distros don't provide this backup / snapshot + restore / rollback system, it would be great that at least for programs that we manually install / update, we have a way to rollback to a previous version. But of course it's up to the KDE developers to think about how hard or much of a burden would be to implement this and find the good compromise. Honestly, I wish that Debian and other distro developers would justt implement a backup and restore system that would get everything back when needed, so we can peacefully update or install new things without much fear of breaking things too bad, which happens no matter how experienced you are, but I don't think that will happen too soon. Not even for us that we are already using BTRFS, where it would be easier to implement. The most perfect setup that I had, where I had the most peace of mind was Windows 7 + Deep Freeze, where I could try whatever I wanted (that affected only the C: partition), so installing updates or new programs and running them as after a restart all the changes were gone. If I really wanted to keep those updates and install new programs permanently, I had to disable Deep Freeze before restarting, then do those changes and restart again. Unfortunately a similar feature to Deep Freeze is not available on Linux as I tried a few years ago. Maybe the immutable thing is trying to have that, but I still would rather have a back-up & restore kind of thing or even better something that at Discover level if it was just one program affected, as I don't think I want everything rolled back, as it would be bad for downloads and other things that have a progress over time, since I'd be losing their progress. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
