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There is a colorful debate going on over in the "Does anyone not like the Katana 100" thread that was a threadjack so I thought I'd move it here.
Mac vs PC is a pointless debate. I'm not touching that. When I say PC below I mean Mac or PC.
How and when to update either is a useful debate though...
To me, there is one -critical- distinction.
Is your music PC a general purpose machine, used on the Internet for everything or is it a dedicated, not for paying family bills and watching Netflix device?
The debate on the Katana thread was about win7 vs win10 but really it was about updating strategies to me at heart.
For non-networked and/or purpose run machines running older OS versions and not patching them regularly makes a lot of sense. When you list all the drivers, apps, plugins, etc. you need it can be a real headache to keep everything working smoothly together. The dependencies can be a lattice. "If it isn't broke, don't fix it" is sage advice here. Update everything at once when you know all versions are ready for each other. Be careful if these machines are on the raw internet. You need to understand that they are at risk. Better to move music data on and off with usb drives and upload from a general purpose, updated machine. When do connect be behind a good router/firewall and only connect to get critical updates and then unplug.
For general purpose machines, the one your wife looks at amazon with or you do an NFL pool with, game on, etc. - the opposite is true. You need to patch as they release security updates or you are putting non-musical assets and data at risk. You need to be ready for things to break, and have a plan for how you fix that, or do you just deal with it until company X catches up to release Y?
In both cases, taking local backups to an external drive is a great idea.
In both cases not running software you don't need is also a great idea.
Hope this helps some folks.
Mac vs PC is a pointless debate. I'm not touching that. When I say PC below I mean Mac or PC.
How and when to update either is a useful debate though...
To me, there is one -critical- distinction.
Is your music PC a general purpose machine, used on the Internet for everything or is it a dedicated, not for paying family bills and watching Netflix device?
The debate on the Katana thread was about win7 vs win10 but really it was about updating strategies to me at heart.
For non-networked and/or purpose run machines running older OS versions and not patching them regularly makes a lot of sense. When you list all the drivers, apps, plugins, etc. you need it can be a real headache to keep everything working smoothly together. The dependencies can be a lattice. "If it isn't broke, don't fix it" is sage advice here. Update everything at once when you know all versions are ready for each other. Be careful if these machines are on the raw internet. You need to understand that they are at risk. Better to move music data on and off with usb drives and upload from a general purpose, updated machine. When do connect be behind a good router/firewall and only connect to get critical updates and then unplug.
For general purpose machines, the one your wife looks at amazon with or you do an NFL pool with, game on, etc. - the opposite is true. You need to patch as they release security updates or you are putting non-musical assets and data at risk. You need to be ready for things to break, and have a plan for how you fix that, or do you just deal with it until company X catches up to release Y?
In both cases, taking local backups to an external drive is a great idea.
In both cases not running software you don't need is also a great idea.
Hope this helps some folks.
