Does updating more often make things break more often? Or does updating less often make things more likely to break when you do finally update? Or do things randomly break regardless and there’s not a damn thing you can do to prevent it either way?
If anyone else is having problems with the latest updates making their ax200 wifi speed capped at 3.4mb/s and has found a fix that doesn’t involve buying new hardware or reinstalling the os, I would love to hear it.
I would like to think installing new updates will eventually fix the problem but I’ve never seen updates fix anything Iike that ever, not even once.
I’d say because of the frequent updates, you’ve simply not run into a bunch of issues that you would have otherwise. Updates most often are a preventative measure, it’s pretty rare, like you say, that you run into an issue and it then gets fixed. Because you just don’t run into the issue in the first place.
I would say there’s not really a difference in upgrading rarely or often. It may happen that if you update more rarely, an issue in the intermediate versions was present and already fixed, so you “skipped” having this problem. But in the end, whenever you update, the new version you get has the same chance to have an issue like the intermediate versions that you skipped. So you’d roughly end up with the same amount of issues if you only change the rarity.
However, a thing you can do is to not update when you’re sure that everything is working, and update more often when you’re waiting for a fix for something. That way, you increase the time period of everything working, and reduce the time period of something not working. This increases your average stability, but the drawback is that you also get security updates less often and thus you might be vulnerable to some attacks, possibly.
But also, you’re talking about quite a specific issue, has this been reported properly? Most often, developers depend on user reports because they don’t have the exact environment a user might have. So far, for very many projects, I’ve found that if you report a problem you at least get a response if not a faster fix. Is your problem properly reported at the correct places? Have you received no answer?
Where do I report this stuff? I don’t even know what package is causing this and I don’t know where to begin in trying to find that out. All I know is my exact issue doesn’t show up on an internet search. I can come up with some lame speculations like maybe it’s firmware related but that’s not very helpful.
I guess I’ve accumulated enough minor issues I could never fix over the years it’s time to bite the bullet and reinstall. Such a waste of time though I hate reinstalling.
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