I’ve been around for a while and this is the first time I’m seeing something like this. I’m wondering if I picked up something nasty or if this is something that other people are seeing.
This is not new. Other distro have this too. In Gnome you will have a tick box in the Shutdown/reboot dialogue and you can opt-out of this offline update. If you update yourself with package manager, you will not need to go through the offline update.
Personally, I like it. It’s predictable, reboots once, updates, shuts off. Unlike Windows which will update, reboot, Update some more, get stuck for 30 minutes, reboot another time, finishing the updates and finally shuts down. And if you have encrypted (bitlocker or such) you have to attend the whole process and miss your fucking train and stay in the office 30 minutes more because of this BS. Sorry, I got carried away a little bit.
Unattended upgrades or firmware update scheduled.
Here is a 2021 article with a screenshot pretty similar to what OP has there.
Fedora does this too, it’s really obnoxious.
Yeah fedora does it even for small updates, not just kernel updates. But only if you update through the store.
In KDE at least there’s a toggle to switch that behaviour. It’s in System settings -> Software update -> Apply system updates. If you switch it to “Immediately” you get the standard package manager behaviour. Not sure if gnome has an equivalent.
Also RHEL-based distros (tested on AlmaLinux). I think it’s alright.
It’s just unnecessary, Debian based doesn’t do this at all so updates are like 10x faster.
Debian 12 also does this. 😂
This is meant to make updates more stable. It should be toggleable in the settings and doesn’t not appear if you update via cli
“Meant to” and “do” are quite different.
I have, not once, ever had an issue caused by a update while the system was online. And if someone did, they could likely reboot to fix it.
I will stick to the online, instantaneous, and unobstructing updates.
I would like to see some real-world numbers and examples of problems that offline updates fix.
I fucking hate forced or automatic updates. have a nightly apt-get update running via cron, and I run the upgrade manually when it suits me.
Agreed usually the first thing that I do when I am working casually is update, but there are times that I need to know that my computer is working like I expect it to. I don’t like this at all.
Nice.
One of reasons why I love Ubuntu is because it updates live and rarely even asks for my password. I’d use any other distro, but they all want stupid password for ANY update and some demand you restart the system. So stupid.
I’ve not yet had such screen on any system. Is this LTS or regular?
Not sure how far it goes I just did a reinstall a couple of days ago for 24.10.
