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[โ€“] 4 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Debian did this to me recently. I was very upset...

Well except it was for my fantasy draft so the stakes were obviously much higher. /s

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    Debian forces you to update? ๐Ÿค”

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

    the default for some distributions these days is to apply updates on restarts (which produce win-like update progress screens) instead of 'immediately' (and leaving a kernel update hanging and waiting for one). it is also often a user-configurable option for handling updates.

    here's fedora, as an example:

    and if you tell your linux to install updates 'automatically', they will come in.. ya know, automatically.. like windows. i've yet to see one 'force' a restart, though.. like windows likes to do.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    Correct. I have a dual boot with windows and when I rebooted to Linux I got stuck installing updates. I'm not particularly opposed to the idea of automatic updates, but I am vehemently against blocking entire computer use while it occurs w/o a way to cancel. I was also mad that to my knowledge this was the default and not an option in feature.

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