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I agree. It's just hard to stay interested when they update their stuff only every 3 years or so.


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Agree about updates. They need to be more agile and ship more frequent updates.

They can stop providing updates and let it go stale.

i didn't know that, and that bums me out. is what's there good enough to not care that there aren't frequent updates?

It's not just the instability but it seems/feels like every cool new feature they implement is then never updated again.

Good point.

I'd be totally happy to go back to an 18-24 month update cycle.

Big structural changes every two years and point updates with feature releases (which would normally be in a new version) and bug fixes.

No need to try and wedge everything into an annual release, especially if it's still buggy or unfinished.


3 years of updates? Meh

I absolutely agree. The action of pushing out major updates every year has lead to a drop in quality. They never get a chance to fix last years bugs because they are working on next years features.

Oh, I know they release new versions, I've been using them for over a year. I meant that I wouldn't mind if they released a major version every year or two. Still worth it.

Why cant they just improve what they have instead of re-writting it every X years and introducing new bugs?

Infrequent updates reduce the happy feeling.

I agree, unfortunately their decision to only provide two years of software updates is a deal breaker for me.

I'm not interested in updates because they never seem to do anything useful, they just move everything around and make thing harder to use without adding anything useful.

But they aren't. There are commercial reasons why updates are limited to two years. It's not great, but it's not the same.

I was going to say something similar - I really wish they'd just slow.the.hell.down with the new releases, rather than continually changing things for what feels like the sake of it (and breaking more and more stuff along the way).

the other thing is that it needs to be constantly updated.

... which stills suffers from the cancer of frequent updates.

They cannot keep giving ground breaking updates to the OS every year. It's OK.

Yeah, I'd appreciate updates if they just fixed bugs, security, and the stuff that was broke.

Instead, it's often endless addition of features no one asked for and UI redesigns/reorgnization. No thanks. I'd probably be willing to pay a subscription to withhold that part.


Major updates are infrequent maybe once a year if you always update, it’s not pestering you. And the UI makes it very easy to skip unlike some designs.
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