At least this is still you choosing when to update
yeah, I just thought it was funny that ive been checking literally daily since I switched to Linux.
If you want you can setup automatic updates in kde settings. They will always stay out of your way and download in the background. They will install if you chose to click “update and shutdown” next time you shutdown or restart your computer.
i have it set up like that but I’m really impatient
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.
Meanwhile here’s me updating shit once a month at most nowadays.
Thats better. Once a month is good.
It’s choice vs force.
I like that on Linux I can install the updates and know that the ones that require a restart will just be ready the next time I restart at my leisure. And if I don’t feel like restarting right away, it won’t nag me about it and maybe just restart on its own if it decides I’ve put it off for too long.
And I can’t believe my previous “solution” to that was to give ms even more money for win 10 pro (to get access to the paywalled settings) only to still feel like ms thought it was their computer that they allowed me to use.
exactly my thoughts. I’m in control here but it also does stuff the way that makes sense on its own whenever I dont mess with it.
And soon™ we’ll have wayland session restore when we do restart!
never really got the point of that kind of stuff but looking at the demand I’m glad its getting added (eventually) since everyone else clearly wants it.
I just want my software to leave me the fuck alone and update automatically. Why is this so difficult?
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
As much as I hate to praise Windows, that’s why they have “update and shut down” when there are updates available.
This is a thing in all KDE distros I know. Once Discover downloaded them, they will be installed on next shutdown / reboot.
Have not gotten this feature to work on Fedora, seems nice if it would work automatically
Never seen it. And KDE nags me incessantly about updates.
You can change the update notification frequency somewhere in settings. Pretty sure you can disable it too.
The problem is not that it nags me, the problem is that it expects me to manually approve updates.
I believe there’s a setting either in Discover (the KDE “app store”) in the main plasma settings (somewhere in the “updates” section? That might be somewhere else, I don’t remember) that will automatically install updates without you needing to approve them.
And there’s also a setting that will wait to install them until the next boot. When I had that setting on, it only added maybe 10 seconds to my startup time when I needed to apply something like a kernel update.
yay --noconfirm && poweroffI think you may have glossed over the “automatically” part.
Set up a cron job or systemd timer and have your computer suddenly powerdown.
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.
If I recall Windows correctly, a scheduled task.
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.
Never actually shuts down for me. Always have to shutdown manually after the update.
Not really going to debate the efficacy, just the concept.
Kubuntu at least also has this option!
Theres an option in Fedora KDE but it has never worked for me for some reason…?
Same.
I’m pretty sure it’s a KDE setting somewhere as there are settings for everything.
Thanks man 👍
Sorry for not being more helpful, I do almost everything on the command line…
I think it’s called muon, or these days discovery, maybe… there you should be able to configure auto updates
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
When you run sid and update some times 7 times in a day 😁
Restarting is good for a computer’s health, right? I think my Kubuntu laptop is the only machine in my house that averages less than two weeks of uptime
yes, iirc the general advice is to restart like once a week. its not a huge deal if you wait a little longer (two is fine) its just a guideline.
@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.
