I miss feeling excitement about software updates, instead of dread.
"Oh, that sounds useful" or "Cool, I've been waiting for them to add that", instead of "Shit, what have they done now?", "Oh no, not you too" or "How do I turn that off?:
@spacelizard #Google *really* made a lot of #LineageOS phones no longer work properly, with the advent of Android 16. I have a Oneplus 9 phone with LineageOS 23.0 which crashes all the time now. In retrospect, I should have left it at LineageOS ver 22, which was at least stable.
@d1 @spacelizard why don't you try 23.2 ?
@Kurt @spacelizard I see a lot of negative feedback on the xda forums

@spacelizard

I miss feeling excitement about software updates, instead of dread.

You still use windows....

@Kerplunk No, I do not, not for over 20 years.

@spacelizard

Sorry, Really looked like a post from a windoze user.

Many students in courses my daughter takes dread common ms update chaos.

Debian stable based antiX plus ICEWM very rarely gives any bother.

Even inviting trouble, as i do, by running a sid setup as a daily driver is mostly relaxed 🙂
The system started as antiX 22 so initial install was somewhere around 4 years ago. I have needed help from the forum for fixing breakages a couple of times though.

Linux since 1994

@spacelizard every time I encounter a bug, I now think ‘Vibe coded’
@spacelizard Mac OS 7 "Rock Solid." man, the things the brain retains . . .
@spacelizard i never have that 🤷‍♀️ ever heard of fdroid? or open source in general?