CB WrightJan 26

OK, it turns out I do have one big gripe about Fedora. At least the KDE version of it, I have no idea if the Gnome version is the same way.

There are updates to Fedora almost every day. That's not my gripe. My gripe is that Fedora forces me to reboot every time those damn updates are downloaded before it will apply them. And because the updates are ALMOST EVERY DAY that means I'm rebooting my fucking desktop ALMOST EVERY DAY and it is a pain in the ass, because HEY I'M TRYING TO USE MY COMPUTER

Show threadCB Wright

Now to be fair, this is the default behavior of KDE Neon, which I transitioned from. But you can turn that behavior OFF - it will apply the patches and then you'll get a notification "hey, you need to reboot before these take effect" and then I could finish what I was doing and reboot when I was goddamn ready to do so.

Fedora KDE seems to have removed this setting from Discover. Apparently they know better than I do what I really need to be doing with my system.

Anyway. It's a pain in the ass.

Jan 26 at 2:57pmWeb
Show threadewanm89Jan 26
@ubersoft quite a lot of them shouldn't actually need a reboot anyway. Unless we are talking fedora silverblue (or a universal blue distro)? Unless it is the kernel or a core systemd component (most are not). It can be restarted to load new code on the fly.
Show threadCB WrightJan 26
@ewanm89 yeah but it forces you to reboot to actually apply the update
Show threadewanm89Jan 26

@ubersoft Yeah, which I don't understand as base fedora is not atomic, and even if it was, there are ways to do that unless we are talking containerised imaged.

I haven't used fedora in a long while though. I do wonder if it still does that if you use dnf via the terminal to update.