I don’t know when it changed, but somewhere in the last 5-10 years gamers and tech enthusiasts have forgotten what “beta” means.
Used to be that if you installed a Beta OS, like Vista, (I mean Windows Longhorn, anyone?) you would pretty much know that something would go wrong, you could lose all your data, and you may need to reinstall everything, but to please submit a bug report so they can look into it. Vista and 7 was had a few bug reports from me I remember.
Now I see posts and people like this saying “I installed a beta OS and it is buggy! What happened?!?” Or worse “Don’t use this garbage product it’s so buggy.” Like, that’s literally what it is, a buggy, not ready for main stream product. I’d love to use some of the new features from SteamOS 3.5 but I use my deck when traveling, and I don’t have a backup, so I stick with the stable release branch.
Unless you are okay with resetting everything potentially every update and losing data, then you want stable.
(and OP here doesn’t seem to be complaining as much as others I have seen, but I stick with my point. Satisfactory forum users are some of the worst users in my book…)
I don’t know when it changed, but somewhere in the last 5-10 years gamers and tech enthusiasts have forgotten what “beta” means.
Used to be that if you installed a Beta OS, like Vista, (I mean Windows Longhorn, anyone?) you would pretty much know that something would go wrong, you could lose all your data, and you may need to reinstall everything, but to please submit a bug report so they can look into it. Vista and 7 was had a few bug reports from me I remember.
Now I see posts and people like this saying “I installed a beta OS and it is buggy! What happened?!?” Or worse “Don’t use this garbage product it’s so buggy.” Like, that’s literally what it is, a buggy, not ready for main stream product. I’d love to use some of the new features from SteamOS 3.5 but I use my deck when traveling, and I don’t have a backup, so I stick with the stable release branch.
Unless you are okay with resetting everything potentially every update and losing data, then you want stable.
(and OP here doesn’t seem to be complaining as much as others I have seen, but I stick with my point. Satisfactory forum users are some of the worst users in my book…)