One of the great things about modern Linuxes is that you get security updates, and other application updates, pushed to you via your update manager : all you have to do is accept the changes and sit back and watch the install. It’s just like Windows Update but without the spyware.
But of course every piece of silver has a cloudy lining. If you don’t choose when, and what, to update (and with this volume of updates, you don’t have time to research and choose), then you have lost control of the software running on your box (and so, really you’ve lost control of your box).
A recent automatic update to Gnome Terminal added the keyboard accelerator CTRL-A to have the function “New Terminal Window”. Who thought of this one I wonder? Presumably not somebody that used CTRL-A regularly – so if you use bash, or screen, your screwed. Of course you can turn off the accelerator (Edit->Keyboard Shortcuts…), but as I get older I find the arguments against running in a highly customized environment grow stronger, and so it takes about 100 instances of new terminal windows being created on my screen when I’m trying to go back to the start of the line in the shell, before I’m ready to go and make the necessary customization.
Ok. I’ve done it now. I’ll shut up.