Anyone else getting sick of all these updates

RussJK

MarkBargain wrote: »

Does uninstalling Java cause many issues for general web use? I may well move away from Adobe for PDFs and I already use Firefox instead of Internet Explorer (albeit Firefox is mainstream too these days).

Getting rid of Java makes no difference for general web use, as it's a different thing altogether to Javascript. I just avoid any programs that use Java. I mean you can even use Libreoffice without Java, just misses a few features.

Definitely know what you mean about Firefox being too mainstream, but there's not a lot of good browsers that don't just have one of the main engines underneath such as Gecko, Trident, Webkit, etc

martinthebandit

ah, reason number 137 why I like Ubuntu

RussJK

martinthebandit wrote: »

ah, reason number 137 why I like Ubuntu

I have this horrible feeling that if asked, you'd readily be able to list the preceding 136 reasons

martinthebandit

RussJK wrote: »

I have this horrible feeling that if asked, you'd readily be able to list the preceding 136 reasons

hmmmmm you never know till you try








(no I couldn't, although how many updates did you say you had this week :cool:)

[Deleted User]

martinthebandit wrote: »

ah, reason number 137 why I like Ubuntu

Do you not receive updates with Ubuntu?

S0litaire

anewhope wrote: »

Do you not receive updates with Ubuntu?

We get updates any time between Monday-Friday, but even the biggest updates only take a few mins to install...

You only need to reboot when the "Kernel" is updated (which I did today) All other updates don't need a reboot to install!

MarkBargain

RussJK wrote: »

Getting rid of Java makes no difference for general web use, as it's a different thing altogether to Javascript. I just avoid any programs that use Java. I mean you can even use Libreoffice without Java, just misses a few features.

I'd like to uninstall Java, it's just that I don't know whether programs I have use it or not. I have Open Office, a few games, nothing unusual really...

RussJK

MarkBargain wrote: »

I'd like to uninstall Java, it's just that I don't know whether programs I have use it or not. I have Open Office, a few games, nothing unusual really...

At worst you can reinstall it after

martinthebandit

RussJK wrote: »

Me? Just Adobe flash today, and I thought I'd get around to updating my Thunderbird version 3 which I never use

I used to go back and forth between Windows 7 and Ubuntu, but really hated the Firefox browser on Ubuntu.

so why didn't go for a different browser?

RussJK

martinthebandit wrote: »

so why didn't go for a different browser?

Been using Firefox since it was called Phoenix browser