The updater that you find on the gameshell updates the Launcher which is, lets say the “Desktop”, for the OS a flash is always the best bet, there are some scripts to try to update from older OS but could fail.
The D.E.O.T. version is a fork of the original OS with a different skin and if I remember correctly a bit behind in terms of updates.
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