Are you cutting edge or 'safe'?
 

Papili0n pointed out the other day that he doesn't install new stuff on his PC very often. Nothing wrong with that.

I am the opposite - I scan the beta forums for the latest crap. Its an addiction, people have been known to make a sticky mess in anticipation of an Adobe announcement.

I back up over night so that when I install my daily dose of shit software I can go back to the system I woke up with.

Posted with Google Chrome V20.0.1961.1 and Windows 8.

I stay on the safe side. Being "cutting edge" can be a pain in the ass and a pain in my credit card bill. :-(

Same here. You wait for a few months or a year; the bugs are gone, and the price is cut in half.


.:2 cents:

I always play it safe!


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I stay on the safe side. If I find something that works, I stay with it. I don't have free time to be testing out potential software when I already have something that works great.

I used to be the kind of person who spent his free time installing new crap (videos cards, mother boards, etc) into my PC and trying to tweak windows all the time. I had more down time than up time; It was to the point I had multiple boxes just to test things on. It was nothing but a huge waste of time.

I was all about having the latest and greatest for a while, but I slowed down a bit. I've been going with the same 980x 6 core CPU for 2 years, and I won't be upgrading until I get a double jump in speed. Also, Windows 7 has been so great, I don't even know if I'll upgrade to 8 when it arrives.

Safe now but in the past i've tried a lot of beta stuff.

same here.,

used to be edgy but now on safe side.

I go for the most stable that has the features or fixes I need. Sometimes that means patching an old kernel with a proposed, untested patch. LVM is big for us and it just underwent a major rewrite (at least the parts that most matter to us were rewritten.) It'll be great for us, but I'll give it a few months in Fedora before we switch production machines over. As soon as I'm satisfied it's safe though, we'll use it because we know exactly what benefit we're getting from it.

So I guess I tend toward "safe", but also watch for new features that actually matter. What don't understand are peopke still using things like Apache 1.3. 2.0 was released in 2001. Being over eleven years behind is a bit extreme to me.

I like to upgrade and be on the cutting edge.

The ROM and Kernel on my Android phone get updated pretty regularly.

Papili0n is a geni(e-Ass)us. I liked his movie though when Steve McQueen played his part and broke out of Devil's Island

Seriously?

I stuck the nozzle from the vacuum cleaner in mine once to clean it. Its really cool if you put it over the CPU fan - It must move at about a million rpm.... lol

We obviously have a very different outlook on life :).

I'm pretty safe as well. Not only do I rarely use any beta stuff, but when the final release comes out I want to know it will be an improvement over what I have before I use/get it.