"I want my software to stay out of my way and only update when I say to" also me the moment an update releases for anything:
"I want my software to stay out of my way and only update... ##kde ##discoverhttps://media.kbin.earth/02/0f/020f203623438d1701f967259ec691c0e6e355ac76f9b6fb421ca6f73dfd533a.png
@unknown1234_5 I want my software to be updated in the background but limited to using only 10% of any resource (bandwidth, CPU etc) while doing so.
I can always set it to automatic somehow, but I never saw those utilities offering a maximum download speed or CPU/Disk utilization setting in any distro.
I struggle to only update once a week. I’d update daily if it weren’t such a waste on the servers.
Its Wednesday and I’m fiending for my Friday update.
They are saying that boot related packages (kernel, etc.) are being work on more frequently than other booting-required distros.
They might be spending their time on other things or whatever. Just that fedora is focusing that direction, heavily and regularly for quite a while. I’d say especially since 42 not that i have any history beyond 40. I came from a place I despised but couldn’t find one that worked as well and stably til i got to trying Fedora. I did, like a decade ago or more, but it wasn’t like it is now to me then.
I believe there’s a setting either in Discover (the KDE “app store”) in the main plasma settings (somewhere in the “updates” section? That might be somewhere else, I don’t remember) that will automatically install updates without you needing to approve them.
And there’s also a setting that will wait to install them until the next boot. When I had that setting on, it only added maybe 10 seconds to my startup time when I needed to apply something like a kernel update.
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@Ulrich @MyNameIsRichard It is not for that.
I.e. rhel family (including Almalinux, Fedora, etc.) can be setting to make updates all time.
Leap maybe can be setting this way too (but not for upgrades)
I am not a programmer and do not know what any of these words mean
You think you can’t use Linux because you can’t set up something to automatically install updates?
No, because doing anything in Linux is DIY in the terminal. I don’t have time for that. I have a job already.
you dont need the terminal for most things
No but you do need it for a lot of things.
what you need is to get the settings in discover set up for the thing you want it to do
There is a setting. It doesn’t work.
if it doesn’t worm reach out and get support
Do a search for “how to [literally anything] on Linux” and tell me it doesn’t send you into the terminal.
TL;DR: make bug reports and look for support in the support channels, not google.
most often thats because it's much faster to do it in the terminal if you know how, or because the result is an old post from before graphical tools were as good as they are now.
also, a google search is not reaching out and getting support. post/send smth in the KDE communities on here or on the matrix (Foss discord, basically) channels for KDE or your distro, or on KDE discuss. people look at those often for the express purpose of helping with this stuff. maybe go to the KDE bug reporting site and report the bug, it'll probably be resolved in the next update.
there are graphical ways to do most of these things that work, you're just new and dont know where they are. there are people out there literally watching whenever they can to help people like you with issues like yours, you are looking in the wrong places. also, even though it can be avoided most of the time you are best off familiarizing yourself with the command line at least a little so you can troubleshoot quicker and better, just like every other operating system.
TL;DR: make bug reports and look for support in the support channels, not google.
No? I don’t want to. I have no responsibility to. And even if I did, I’m sure this isn’t the kind of discussion that’s never been had before.
most often thats because it’s much faster to do it in the terminal if you know how
I’m sure it is. I don’t know how. And every time I try, I end up spending hours trying to figure it out, which is the opposite of fast. Put a button I can click and there’s no need to go scowering the web looking for the exact correct combination of random characters to type in the black box.
post/send smth in the KDE communities on here or on the matrix
That’s just takes even more time, and is often either ignored or berated for being so ignorant to ask the question in the first place or for not searching it first.
there are graphical ways to do most of these things that work, you’re just new and dont know where they are.
There aren’t. And even when there are, the support sites will send you into the terminal every time anyway.
even though it can be avoided most of the time you are best off familiarizing yourself with the command line at least a little so you can troubleshoot quicker and better
I don’t want to do that. I don’t know why it’s so hard to understand that some people just want to use their PCs and not spend all their time trying to figure out how to make them do things that other computers can just figure out how to do by clicking buttons in a menu.
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