Why can't Ms release "Nightly Builds" for Dev testing - would work great as VM's on HYPER-V e.g Linux FedoraF43 (next release)

Hi folks
@Scannerman

seems to me rather than the haphazard way Windows updates are rolled out -- why not have a decent "nightly build" availability with a log of what's still broken (or at least what they know about that's broken) and then it's less of this absurd lottery that is now "Windows Update".

Here's the Dev test version of Fedora F43 -- running a Live disro version on HYPER-V -- F43 is the next release AFTER the upcoming F42, -- F41 is the current stable release.




It's available from the nightly builds archives and status is shown quite clearly by just clicking on the embedded links . The latest (Fedora 43) are on the Rawhide side, next release is the F42 on the left.

So you can have "Up to the second" leading edge stuff if you want -- I'm impressed with this methodology - and since Fedora is "owned" by RedHat/IBM it's not a "fly by night" system and is properly resourced. Eventually some of this stuff goes into the commercial server offering so before being released as stable it's decently tested.


Just download the appropriate "Live version" - create your Hyper-V VM and simply test away.

Cheers
jimbo

A thousand times no - this would cause chaos!

Linux nightly builds are for reallly experienced users.

I see no benefit for incremental changes that have not been remotely tested.

I can see the posts now from Joe Public - build 12345xxx is crashing - what do I do?

MS is not that good at Monthly Builds, I can't imagine what a Nightly build would be good for.

Time? resources?