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  • there is. if the updater gui integrates with packagekit and systemd, it can start an offline update that reboots your system and installs the updates while nothing else is running.

    kind of like on windows, except that this is one of the things where windows made the right call. complex software does not handle it well if its program libraries and assets are being replaced by newer ones that the running version cannot understand.

    its still kind of a new thing, not all distros make use of it yet, but Fedora does, and it’s not a Fedora custom solution but something that most distros can have.

    automatic filesystem snapshots and rollback can be integrated to this too, and then bye bye to updates breaking the whole system.














  • couldn’t it work in such a way that it’s hybrid, but PoW transactions are stronger?

    PoS verifiers make the process fast, and PoW verifiers will make sure with more effort that the transactions are valid. but if PoS verification gets gamed somehow, PoW verifiers will override it in 10 minutes. Basically a 2 level verification procedure. and everyone who accepts Monero as payment can decide which verification process they want to rely on: the fast one, or the one that can’t be easily influenced by the rich. I think often the latter is not a real concern, like with small value transactions.

    maybe we could have a safety system that in case enough PoW verifiers find that a PoS verifier incorrectly verified the transaction, the PoS verifier’s stake could be taken from them.