It’s choice vs force.
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 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.
Never actually shuts down for me. Always have to shutdown manually after the update.
Kubuntu at least also has this option!
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.
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.)
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.
Theres an option in Fedora KDE but it has never worked for me for some reason…?
I’m pretty sure it’s a KDE setting somewhere as there are settings for everything.
Thanks man 👍
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.
Do you have to restart? I’m finding that Fedora (KDE or not) is usually very restart happy.
Nah I dont restart unless its a massive update of tons of core packages
On fedora that is? Because “my” fedora want to install system stuff only during restart (if updated from app at least).
You can toggle that off in the menu if youre on KDE. I’m on nobara though not fedora so maybe its different.
Where exactly do I find that setting? But I fear it won’t work with fedora.
its in the software updates page, I think its behind a button at the top
It’s where @[email protected] suggested. Thanks both, I’ve set it to immediately and first update went without restart. Fingers crossed.
