• Ulrich
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    73 days ago

    As much as I hate to praise Windows, that’s why they have “update and shut down” when there are updates available.

    • BlueKey
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      103 days ago

      This is a thing in all KDE distros I know. Once Discover downloaded them, they will be installed on next shutdown / reboot.

      • Ulrich
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        42 days ago

        Never seen it. And KDE nags me incessantly about updates.

          • Ulrich
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            11 day ago

            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.

      • Ulrich
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        32 days ago

        I think you may have glossed over the “automatically” part.

          • Ulrich
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            62 days ago

            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.

                • Of the Air (cele/celes)
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                  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.

            • @Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de
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              12 days ago

              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.

              • Ulrich
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                22 days ago

                Because I know enough to know that commands don’t run themselves.

                  • Ulrich
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                    22 days ago

                    I am not a programmer and do not know what any of these words mean

                • @Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de
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                  22 days ago

                  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

                  • Ulrich
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                    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.

    • Max
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      33 days ago

      Kubuntu at least also has this option!