That's a huge issue these days. We have to spend far too much time updating or upgrading software [1], figuring out why or even whether it is needed, (trying to) fix issues arising from all that, (trying to) roll back if we cannot solve those issues, having downtime on use of the software while all this is (mis)happening, and more.
[1] And what the heck is the difference between updating and upgrading, anyway? (I'm not interested in googling it. More busy work.) And who the heck is interested in the difference? Not end users, for sure. I have come across these two similar, hence maddening terms, in at least Ubuntu Linux distributions. Why can't they use less ambiguous terms?
And to top it all, I'm a techie. If I (and many other techies) have such issues, what to say about laymen, who are sometimes called "normies" by said techies and even by biztechies? I've actually heard or read both types using that term, disparagingly. The irony is that it only reflects on them, i.e. all of us in those fields, because the term implies that we are abnormal - with good reason.
End of rant.
I'll see myself out now, your tech honour (overlord).
I call installing new software versions "updating" because its newer, while "upgrading" implies things are improved, which is far from a given when installing software updates.
That's a huge issue these days. We have to spend far too much time updating or upgrading software [1], figuring out why or even whether it is needed, (trying to) fix issues arising from all that, (trying to) roll back if we cannot solve those issues, having downtime on use of the software while all this is (mis)happening, and more.
[1] And what the heck is the difference between updating and upgrading, anyway? (I'm not interested in googling it. More busy work.) And who the heck is interested in the difference? Not end users, for sure. I have come across these two similar, hence maddening terms, in at least Ubuntu Linux distributions. Why can't they use less ambiguous terms?
And to top it all, I'm a techie. If I (and many other techies) have such issues, what to say about laymen, who are sometimes called "normies" by said techies and even by biztechies? I've actually heard or read both types using that term, disparagingly. The irony is that it only reflects on them, i.e. all of us in those fields, because the term implies that we are abnormal - with good reason.
End of rant.
I'll see myself out now, your tech honour (overlord).
;)