mvanthoor wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 6:19 pmIf I would need to compile engines myself (and do research when the build script doesn't work out of the box), it would take even more time to create the gauntlet lists.
Come on. I remember a new user here, Pi4Chess, who was initially asking for Raspi ARM Linux binaries, and who said he wasn't a programmer so that he wouldn't know how to compile. It didn't take many explanations, and guess what, he pretty much compiled everything that would even run on a Raspi. For someone who is a programmer, that would be even less of an issue. At least not for the vast majority of engines because they are written in C/C++ so that there is a proper compiler already installed by default, and you don't have to download some LTS-distro bypassing, nightly compiler toolchain.
flok wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 9:31 pmMost of my friends run Linux (like myself) and I never hear this with Linux, never.
Even if something should go wrong, I still have Timeshift set up as safety net so that I could roll back bad updates. Not that I have needed this so far, but it's nice to have in place, and I can just apply updates without thinking.
Milos wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:52 pmYou know there is a thing on Windows called fast reboot
That was not the problem. Normal Windows boots, where fast boot could help, don't take hours. It's specifically updates because Windows is so badly designed that it cannot update opened DLLs. So instead, it copies that stuff somewhere else, and upon the next boot, before Windows is loaded, it copies the updates in place. Normally, that takes some minutes, but sometimes, non-reproducibly, it may fry itself because MS has largely disbanded the Windows QA, and Windows Home users are now the unpaid beta testers for the enterprise version.
flok wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:07 pmI know about fast reboot etc. And I also know that you're advised to regularly (once a week or so - there was this patch-tuesday thing if I remember correctly) do a full reboot to let it perform all those updates.
Not just that - it's also necessary to even have a working system. Just last week at work, the PDF export of MS Word under Win 10 was totally weird although all my settings were correct. Considering that I was on a game starter OS, I tried rebooting before filing an IT ticket. True to form, it did work after a reboot. The uptime had been about two weeks. That's just ridiculous.