• @[email protected]
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    12 hours ago

    But it’s such an excitement!

    Automatic updates don’t give you the pleasure to see what changed and update and test new features out

    • unknown1234_5OP
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      38 hours ago

      yeah, I just thought it was funny that ive been checking literally daily since I switched to Linux.

  • Ulrich
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    111 day ago

    I just want my software to leave me the fuck alone and update automatically. Why is this so difficult?

      • Phoenixz
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        116 hours ago

        I’m pretty sure it’s a KDE setting somewhere as there are settings for everything.

    • Max
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      101 day ago

      There’s probably an option in your distro to automatically install updates, but it’s annoying when that happens when you’re in the middle of something or if they require restarts

      • Ulrich
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        71 day ago

        As much as I hate to praise Windows, that’s why they have “update and shut down” when there are updates available.

          • Ulrich
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            220 hours ago

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

              • Ulrich
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                220 hours 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.

                • @[email protected]
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                  115 hours 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.

        • BlueKey
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          91 day ago

          This is a thing in all KDE distros I know. Once Discover downloaded them, they will be installed on next shutdown / reboot.

          • Ulrich
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            323 hours ago

            Never seen it. And KDE nags me incessantly about updates.

            • @[email protected]
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              114 minutes ago

              You can change the update notification frequency somewhere in settings. Pretty sure you can disable it too.

          • @[email protected]
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            120 hours ago

            Have not gotten this feature to work on Fedora, seems nice if it would work automatically

          • Ulrich
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            220 hours ago

            Not really going to debate the efficacy, just the concept.

        • Max
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          31 day ago

          Kubuntu at least also has this option!

  • @[email protected]
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    161 day ago

    I struggle to only update once a week. I’d update daily if it weren’t such a waste on the servers.

    Its Wednesday and I’m fiending for my Friday update.

    • Bakkoda
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      222 hours ago

      Meanwhile here’s me updating shit once a month at most nowadays.

      • @[email protected]
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        622 hours ago

        Fedora updates the kernel and other packages that get loaded into memory at boot time more frequently than other non-rolling distros, which of course necessitates more frequent restarts.

        • @[email protected]
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          121 hours ago

          So it is just because they do more when upgrading if I understand you correctly (actually these restarts are daily occurrence)?

        • @[email protected]
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          31 day ago

          On fedora that is? Because “my” fedora want to install system stuff only during restart (if updated from app at least).

          • @[email protected]
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            41 day ago

            You can toggle that off in the menu if youre on KDE. I’m on nobara though not fedora so maybe its different.

                • @[email protected]
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                  214 minutes ago

                  When I first started using Fedora I hesitated to turn this setting on because, to me, it sounds like it’s going to install stuff automatically without asking. I feel like it’s badly named and confusing. Now I suspect they named it poorly on purpose because they really want people to restart to install updates.

              • unknown1234_5OP
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                28 hours ago

                its in the software updates page, I think its behind a button at the top

      • Clay_pidgin
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        122 hours ago

        I don’t think Debian has ever asked me to restart after an update.

  • @unknown1234_5 I want my software to be updated in the background but limited to using only 10% of any resource (bandwidth, CPU etc) while doing so.

    I can always set it to automatic somehow, but I never saw those utilities offering a maximum download speed or CPU/Disk utilization setting in any distro.