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the Gnome desktop (at least on Fedora) also delays updates until shutdown/reboot time. but points taken on Javascript and Python. From what I'm seeing in Gnome
by michel-slm 9y ago
the Gnome desktop (at least on Fedora) also delays updates until shutdown/reboot time. but points taken on Javascript and Python. From what I'm seeing in Gnome Builder updates though, they're really interested in getting to a point where Rust can be used for writing Gnome apps.
- pmontra 9y agoNot on Ubuntu with Gnome flashback. I get an update popup at least any other day with the new versions of some packages or security updates. Reboots are for switching to new versions of the kernel. I confess I sometime postpone reboots for even a couple of months. I suspend my laptop and I have too many open applications (desktop or background) to be willing to close and restart all of them. If it's really like that, no Fedora for me.
- cmurf 9y agoMost distros have this no bundled libraries rule, so either the stale version can still be used after an update, or if it's yanked out from under running processes, they can crash. Hence rebooting. macOS and Windows have mandatory reboots for anything system related too, so this is not out of the ordinary. Right now, if you use flatpak based applications on Fedora, they get updated without reboots. And that's the way forward, including for the desktop environment itself eventually.