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In Ubuntu, there is a setting to have all security updates happen automatically every day in the background without ever having to bother the user. And its been

In Ubuntu, there is a setting to have all security updates happen automatically every day in the background without ever having to bother the user. And its been that way for over a decade. You don't have to be alerted, wait, and restart your whole computer for every little thing. I'm surprised how Mac/Windows still never bothered to catch up. The user should not be bothered by trivial maintenance tasks that the OS should handle. Hell, I'd do this for all updates if Firefox didn't require an immediate browser restart every time its upgraded.

wkat4242 4y ago
My daily driver is FreeBSD and it doesn't have this, but even still it's not much of a bother at all. I just reboot when there is a need to and am back running in 5 minutes. Of course Linux has this live patching thing to the kernel which is pretty cool. But I thought you needed an Ubuntu One subscription to access that on Ubuntu?
CoolCold 4y ago
> You don't have to be alerted, wait, and restart your whole computer for every little thing. I'm surprised how Mac/Windows still never bothered to catch up. Cannot comment anything on Mac, have no experience. On Windows side, your statement is simply waaay overestimated and honestly speaking is not true. Using your words - Hell, it's even can update video/networking drivers _online_, without restart, not even mentioning smaller things like Defender definitions updates. Those apps installed from Store, do autoupdate without requiring restart as well. Firefox, shows a tip on update is available and patiently waits, nothing "require an immediate browser restart". Heck, you can even configure to use devices in your local network to act like caching of downloaded data and to not redownload the same stuff from internet to each workstatation in your network. You either stuck in the past of WinXP era or producing defamation on purpose. Coming back to Ubuntu, question regarding > In Ubuntu, there is a setting to have all security updates happen automatically every day in the background will it honor you are on metered connection like WiFi hotspot shared from phone?

wkat4242 4y ago

My daily driver is FreeBSD and it doesn't have this, but even still it's not much of a bother at all. I just reboot when there is a need to and am back running in 5 minutes. Of course Linux has this live patching thing to the kernel which is pretty cool. But I thought you needed an Ubuntu One subscription to access that on Ubuntu?

CoolCold 4y ago

> You don't have to be alerted, wait, and restart your whole computer for every little thing. I'm surprised how Mac/Windows still never bothered to catch up. Cannot comment anything on Mac, have no experience. On Windows side, your statement is simply waaay overestimated and honestly speaking is not true. Using your words - Hell, it's even can update video/networking drivers _online_, without restart, not even mentioning smaller things like Defender definitions updates. Those apps installed from Store, do autoupdate without requiring restart as well. Firefox, shows a tip on update is available and patiently waits, nothing "require an immediate browser restart". Heck, you can even configure to use devices in your local network to act like caching of downloaded data and to not redownload the same stuff from internet to each workstatation in your network. You either stuck in the past of WinXP era or producing defamation on purpose. Coming back to Ubuntu, question regarding > In Ubuntu, there is a setting to have all security updates happen automatically every day in the background will it honor you are on metered connection like WiFi hotspot shared from phone?