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[–] 79 points 2 months ago (25 children)

Don't hate, but I actually like the GUI update manager in Mint. Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    The key here IMO is that you decide both when and how.
    No such option with Windows, but if you like the GUI and are used to using that, I don't see why anyone of their right mind would have a problem with that.

    Personally I prefer to open a terminal and press the up key so I don't have to type the command again, it takes 30 times until I get to the correct command, so it's clearly slower, but hey we all have our little quirks.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    history | grep

    !

    You can do reverse search but I’m too lazy to remember the sequence right now

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Oh thanks for this. I've been using history | grep $something for the longest time, but i always end up copy pasting the actual command cause i didn't remember how to invoke the number, and copy pasting is so quick that you end up never looking up how to do it properly lol.

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  • [–] 69 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    That just runs apt and prints it nicely to you

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    That's a front end on apt. You're just making it pretty.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Permit me to repeat what I said to a similar reply:

    Oh, I'm well aware. It's just that sometimes I like a cushion on my chair, you know?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    I'm not saying that's a bad thing. I'm saying 'one of us'.

    The importamt difference between apt and windows update is not how pretty it is. You still update at your leisure in like three clicks, more if you want to be fiddly. You can choose to jot update this or that. If your connection is slow it will keep going while you go about your business and if you need to restart to finish anything it will tell you, rather than interrupting you with an implied 'but if you don't save every ten seconds you deserved this. Computer will be ready when its ready.'

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    I like a GUI updater but the Plasma Discover one is so shit, it errors almost every time. I keep it for updating the odd flatpak, etc, but I always have to update from the terminal first.

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