Comment by ptx

5 years ago

Why would you enable unattended upgrades on a desktop computer (as opposed to a server)? Is this something Ubuntu enforces?

If you don't enable this feature (which isn't enabled by default in Debian) you won't have this problem.

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turtles_  5 years ago

It was enabled by default in the standard desktop install (I didn't really customize anything I'm not a heavy user of desktop Linux). Of course I'll be disabling it next time I boot that partition. Point being Linux isn't immune to this type of annoyance.

  • kaba0  5 years ago

    As far as I know it is only Ubuntu that does anything similar.

    • ASalazarMX  5 years ago

      Probably to deal with corruption from people applying library updates and not restarting their programs because they keep running fine in memory. I have no idea how many bug reports could be ascribed to this, but if we want a user-friendly Linux we have to put up with the safer update process. It's not lengthy at all, wait less than one minute and you're set.

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    • jkepler  5 years ago

      I haven't ever run into that in 8 years of running a various GNU/Linux distros (MeeGo, Elementary OS, Maemo, Sailfish OS, Debian)... though I've never run Ubuntu.

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