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To what extent, if at all, would have CrowdStrike's faulty update have been easier to deal with with an immutable distro? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Laypeople couldn't fix it even more.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They can't fix Windows either, so that's not an argument.

Least if it's a Linux system, they don't need to buy any software to sort it out. It's free and out in the open.

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah? Immutable distro, clownstrike kernel panic, what tool do you use now? Remember, you 'need' clownstrike.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk -1 points 2 months ago

I don't need some closed blob, with auto updates, in my OS. I doubt many Linux people would be happy with that.

To deal with a bad update, I'd boot a Btrfs snapshot from before the bad update. 'grub-btrfs' is great. I confess, it works great for my laptop, but I've not yet got it on one of my server. When I finally rebuild my home server, I will though. Work servers, I hope won't always be my problem!