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computers are customizable for a reason and software always requires human interaction to be updates/useable.. most people are OK with their iPhone updating i

computers are customizable for a reason and software always requires human interaction to be updates/useable.. most people are OK with their iPhone updating itself and its apps and showing related apps -not sure why that's so hard for windows users to adopt.

jessaustin 9y ago
Any process can be more or less usable. GP described a setup in which the user is responsible for noticing that updates are available. That is just terrible.
- supernovae 9y ago
  I don't follow. Windows 10 has an action center, it shows everything pending. If there are security updates and they're frozen or pending restarts they show up in there if you misted the toast notification. Nearly all OS's have the problems of security updates being hidden unless they're forced (like a phone). OSX you have to click update inside the app store, Linux you have to check apt-get / yum update or whatever it is you do, brew you need to "brew update" - humans need to be part of the equation in some fashion. I think the biggest thing is that people should care about being secure.. care enough to check for updates and be a part of the community they choose to be a part of - be it Linux/windows/osx/android/whateverthe* you want
  - evand 9y ago
    For what it's worth, as of 16.04 Ubuntu automatically installs security updates: https://blog.appcanary.com/2016/unattended-upgrades.html https://blog.appcanary.com/2016/unattended-upgrades.html In snapcraft, all updates are automatically installed: https://docs.ubuntu.com/core/en/reference/automatic-refreshes https://docs.ubuntu.com/core/en/reference/automatic-refreshe... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLxqdf89hRo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLxqdf89hRo
    - supernovae 9y ago
      only if you leave unattended on.. most server admins turn that off so servers don't change out from under config management.

jessaustin 9y ago

Any process can be more or less usable. GP described a setup in which the user is responsible for noticing that updates are available. That is just terrible.

supernovae 9y ago
I don't follow. Windows 10 has an action center, it shows everything pending. If there are security updates and they're frozen or pending restarts they show up in there if you misted the toast notification. Nearly all OS's have the problems of security updates being hidden unless they're forced (like a phone). OSX you have to click update inside the app store, Linux you have to check apt-get / yum update or whatever it is you do, brew you need to "brew update" - humans need to be part of the equation in some fashion. I think the biggest thing is that people should care about being secure.. care enough to check for updates and be a part of the community they choose to be a part of - be it Linux/windows/osx/android/whateverthe* you want
- evand 9y ago
  For what it's worth, as of 16.04 Ubuntu automatically installs security updates: https://blog.appcanary.com/2016/unattended-upgrades.html https://blog.appcanary.com/2016/unattended-upgrades.html In snapcraft, all updates are automatically installed: https://docs.ubuntu.com/core/en/reference/automatic-refreshes https://docs.ubuntu.com/core/en/reference/automatic-refreshe... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLxqdf89hRo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLxqdf89hRo
  - supernovae 9y ago
    only if you leave unattended on.. most server admins turn that off so servers don't change out from under config management.