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  • Any political and technological improvement that affects society at large.

    Inventing a wheel? Progress. Forming tribes, kingdoms, republics? Progress.

    But also improving the camera on your phone? Progress. Passing worker protection law in a city of 10000? Progress.

    Small or big, both are examples of things, that are by themselves better. The only important caveat is when one contradicts the other.

    Improved cameras being used to deport migrants? Not progress, as a technological improvement tramples political development. Emergence of an agrarian socialist state? Not progress, as political development is accompanied by the destruction of technology.

    Each side to progress is only as useful and important as it is supported or at least not interfered by the other. Then it’s progress.







  • Then you’d also be pressed to show the same for Linux.

    The only two reasons Linux updates are represented as terminal commands are that:

    • Most distros have several DEs that come with different app managing software, so you naturally don’t have a universal “update Linux” button
    • Typing a command is simply faster

    But in principle, app stores coming with most major Linux DEs can absolutely update your system at the push of a button.

    Some distros, like Fedora, even allow you to update your UEFI straight from the app store. How’s that to you, Windows?