"I want my software to stay out of my way and only update when I say to"
also me the moment an update releases for anything:
"I want my software to stay out of my way and only update when I say to"
also me the moment an update releases for anything:
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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.
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.
There is. It doesn't do anything.
Have not gotten this feature to work on Fedora, seems nice if it would work automatically
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.
I don't know what that is either.
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.
Thanks
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.Because I know enough to know that commands don't run themselves.
Except from the cron job part. Which is exactly what that's for
I am not a programmer and do not know what any of these words mean
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
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.
Kubuntu at least also has this option!
Theres an option in Fedora KDE but it has never worked for me for some reason…?
Same.