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Recently installed Linux Mint, what baffled me in 2022 is that regularely upon log-on it nags me to install security updates and when I acknowledge the request,
by sys42590 4y ago
Recently installed Linux Mint, what baffled me in 2022 is that regularely upon log-on it nags me to install security updates and when I acknowledge the request, it asks me for my password again. I agree that general package manager operations should be a privileged operation... but approving the installation of security updates should not have the user being greeted by just another password prompt.
- dingaling 4y agoThey're exactly the same filesystem operations, it's just the semantics of why they're being installed that changes. What frustrates me about updates is that they nag at log-in when I've already been waiting for the computer to boot and just want to get on with the task at hand.
- Ptchd 4y agoI once had ubuntu change that behavior but for some reason they reverted quickly...