• Ulrich
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      33 days ago

      I think you may have glossed over the “automatically” part.

        • Ulrich
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          63 days ago

          Brother, I am not a programmer and do not know what any of these words mean, and am not interested in becoming one. I just want to use a computer. This is precisely why I can’t use Linux.

          • JackbyDev
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            22 days ago

            You think you can’t use Linux because you can’t set up something to automatically install updates? Nah, don’t worry about that. You really still can. You don’t need to know what a cronjob is lol. (Just some commands that run on a schedule.)

            • Ulrich
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              12 days ago

              You think you can’t use Linux because you can’t set up something to automatically install updates?

              No, because doing anything in Linux is DIY in the terminal. I don’t have time for that. I have a job already.

              • unknown1234_5OP
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                only enthusiast distros like arch are diy in any sense. you dont need the terminal for most things, what you need is to get the settings in discover set up for the thing you want it to do and if it doesn’t worm reach out and get support. that guy talking about cronjobs is probably just familiar with the command line and forgot that that isn’t normal.

                • Ulrich
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                  01 day ago

                  you dont need the terminal for most things

                  No but you do need it for a lot of things.

                  what you need is to get the settings in discover set up for the thing you want it to do

                  There is a setting. It doesn’t work.

                  if it doesn’t worm reach out and get support

                  Do a search for “how to [literally anything] on Linux” and tell me it doesn’t send you into the terminal.

                  • unknown1234_5OP
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                    11 day ago

                    TL;DR: make bug reports and look for support in the support channels, not google.

                    most often thats because it’s much faster to do it in the terminal if you know how, or because the result is an old post from before graphical tools were as good as they are now.

                    also, a google search is not reaching out and getting support. post/send smth in the KDE communities on here or on the matrix (Foss discord, basically) channels for KDE or your distro, or on KDE discuss. people look at those often for the express purpose of helping with this stuff. maybe go to the KDE bug reporting site and report the bug, it’ll probably be resolved in the next update.

                    there are graphical ways to do most of these things that work, you’re just new and dont know where they are. there are people out there literally watching whenever they can to help people like you with issues like yours, you are looking in the wrong places. also, even though it can be avoided most of the time you are best off familiarizing yourself with the command line at least a little so you can troubleshoot quicker and better, just like every other operating system.

              • Of the Air (cele/celes)
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                Both cron jobs and scheduled tasks are ways of making a computer do something at a certain time and/or date automatically without any user input apart from the initial inputting of setting it up.

          • @[email protected]
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            23 days ago

            Then how do you know that the magic spell I gave you doesn’t do it “automatically”? Either you’re lying and you actually a programmer, since we know you need to be a programmer to be able to read, or you somehow figured out how to read it without being one, but that would be crazy, absolutely crazy.
            Anyway, if for some reason you need your system to decide when to update and reboot, there is an easily googlable setting for it, and if you just need to emulate window’s “update and shutdown” button, I gave you it for my preferred Linux distribution, and it’s not more complicated on all the other ones.

            • Ulrich
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              23 days ago

              Because I know enough to know that commands don’t run themselves.

                • Ulrich
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                  23 days ago

                  I am not a programmer and do not know what any of these words mean

              • @[email protected]
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                33 days ago

                Well, “update and shutdown” button is a button, it also doesn’t press itself. I hope you’re being intentionally obtuse, at least this way someone is having fun

                • Ulrich
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                  No, but the updates are downloaded automatically and the button is changed from “shut down” to “update and shut down” automatically. And I don’t appreciate your unwarranted insinuations.