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Trying Fedora. Never rebooted so often in my life (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Even back in the Windows 3.1 or 95 days I didn't have to reboot this often - sometimes twice a day. Seems a bit excessive?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's because it has offline updates enabled in Discover settings, its not a distro thing rather that Gnome and KDE have that in their software centers as a setting, and Fedora enables it by default, but it can be disabled.

It's to make your system more stable because no packages get moved or updated during a running system causing unexpected behavior, and you also don't have to reboot when it tells you, it's more just a reminder that updates are waiting to be applied when you do, they could really word that better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, I assumed I'd have to live with it... Would changing that setting be a bad idea?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not a bad idea really, if you update tons of stuff without rebooting if you have it disabled sometimes weird stuff can happen, but its not very common and usually not very bad at all. I'd leave it on if you want that extra little bit of stability, but if its just a regular every day use computer I think either way is fine.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well that was easy. Thank you very much, I may stick to Fedora for a while longer!

For anyone wondering, just edit /etc/xdg/discoverrc and change the flag to "false".

Edit: looks like it can also be changed with a checkbox in system settings > software updates.