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I'm still on 18.04, but I agree. Discord and VSCode keep occasionally prompting me to manually download and install .deb files. I'd really prefer if they just u

I'm still on 18.04, but I agree. Discord and VSCode keep occasionally prompting me to manually download and install .deb files. I'd really prefer if they just updated automatically. Discord gives a full page "download this update to keep doing things" message that interrupts everything. (i think only on larger updates? i havent seen it in a while) A quick google is telling me that both have snap packages - I guess I'll probably be switching to those when I setup 20.04. Hopefully the snap versions work as well as the non-snaps. I think its interesting that they are pushing snaps so hard on this LTS release though. I always thought of the LTS versions as getting stuck with older versions and being very strict about updates not breaking things. I guess perhaps with the snap-sandboxing this should work smoother? Personally, as long as my system works I don't care. If the software gets updated, that's fine with me.

shaan7 6y ago
> Discord and VSCode keep occasionally prompting me to manually download and install .deb files. I'd really prefer if they just updated automatically I installed VSCode from the .deb package on the VSCode website and it automatically added the update repository so that it auto updates via apt. "Installing the .deb package will automatically install the apt repository and signing key to enable auto-updating using the system's package manager" See https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux Discord doesn't, though.
- snailmailman 6y ago
  oh cool! I do see the repository in the list. Come to think of it I haven't noticed the popup recently. It used to be basically be a thing in the corner of vscode with a link to the download page. I would usually do the update manually when i saw it, cause I thought it couldn't update on its own.

shaan7 6y ago

> Discord and VSCode keep occasionally prompting me to manually download and install .deb files. I'd really prefer if they just updated automatically I installed VSCode from the .deb package on the VSCode website and it automatically added the update repository so that it auto updates via apt. "Installing the .deb package will automatically install the apt repository and signing key to enable auto-updating using the system's package manager" See https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux Discord doesn't, though.

snailmailman 6y ago
oh cool! I do see the repository in the list. Come to think of it I haven't noticed the popup recently. It used to be basically be a thing in the corner of vscode with a link to the download page. I would usually do the update manually when i saw it, cause I thought it couldn't update on its own.