If ever there was one thing that would make me leave Fedora it would be the immediate updating every time you open Discover. I hate that.
You do know it is possible to disable Discover from autostarting right?
There are also numerous ways of updating, e.g. from the terminal, that give you more fine-grained control.
I mean’t that when Discover opens it automatically checks for updates. If I can disable that and still get updates as normal then that works for me. Yes of course I know I can update via terminal. Linux user for over 25 years. But not real, real familiar with all the options in Fedora.
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And what is the problem? Let the program search for updates, you can use the program as you please, you don’t have to wait for all the updates to be found. You open Discover because you want to do something in it, so do it. Let the updates stay where they are.
Yes I can but it does lag a bit. Just my preference is all. I can live with it.
I see where you can disable/manual updates but that’s just not a very smart option in my opinion.
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Why do people just blindly defend every single decision? Discover is poorly designed and what Dave complains about is a design aspect that forces something on the user. I understand you like Fedora, and so do I, but come on.
Discover is a KDE program and unless other distro’s change Discover’s behavior it will be the same in every distro which uses KDE, so changing distro doesn’t do you much good.
Just set the updates in KDE System-Settings to automatic with either a daily or weekly schema and et it do it’s thing.
Applications are installed immediately so you can use them straight away, system updates (at least in Kinoite) are prepared as much as possible and then finished when the computer reboots, or boots the next time.
Don’t worry about those updates, the system will handle them. It never hurts to check upon them now and then though.
it is not so much that I defend the decision, it’s more that I like it. The automatic update system is a great invention, you don’t have to worry about doing updates yourself. So, yes, I like it.
What is forced upon the user? I see it more that something is taken away from the user: having to check and if present, do updates.
Have you seen this discussion? With script to customize.
Bad idea. The purpose of automatic updates is to stay safe, well that’s one of them anyway.
I would NEVER wait a month to update my system, especially in these days and times.
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The idea with auto updates is to make life easier for people that do not want to actively admin their systems. If you are willing to be an actively admin you can update at a time of your choosing and as frequently as you think you need.
I thought that auto updates were handled in the background by package kit, not discover?
I know that package kit will update meta data often is that you are seeing happening?
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You won’t know that their is an update most of the time unless you open Discover. Of course the normal blue icon does still appear for updates but with automatic updates selected you don’t know what time they run. It just says Daily.
Before I removed package kit and discover I was seeing notifications and sys tray indicator when there were updates available. Is that happening for your system?
Blue update icon not so much but I do go into Discover a lot so I observed this. I can live with it as is, but maybe my lack of understanding what’s happeneing in the background is why.
If I have an update, should not the blue icon show and not show sometimes until I go into Discover?
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Notification freq controls when the “you have updates available” appears in the panel. Of course, when you apply them is entirely up to you.
This is my default setting but Discover checks every time you open it and often there are updates that the Notification is NOT showing. But I will consider this case closed because it is what it is.
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Maybe you have reached level 7 in your lifetime quest of the Linux-Fu.
It is time to disable Discover. Maybe search for the forbidden fruit of a truly customisable windowing system.
Embrace the command line.
For Flatpak there is also the alternative application Bazaar to mention. If you like to go step wise into discoveing dnf.