I’m using Linux for more than 10 years. First it was Ubuntu and its family, than last 8 years it was Manjaro.
One week before I have installed Fedora KDE The reason why I chose Fedora over Manjaro is because touchpad gestures work in Firefox out of the box in Fedora, but not in Manjaro.
But what bothers me about Fedora is that in 90% of cases after update, the system requires a reboot, and there are updates every day! Neither Manjaro nor even Windows require you to reboot your computer so often after an update!
You can also apply updates when shutting down your PC if you don’t want to install them right away. The system takes care of everything automatically: update > reboot > shut down.
You can also choose how often updates are applied if daily ones feel excessive: weekly, monthly, or never (in which case you apply them manually).
Right, so you have updates set to apply “After rebooting”.
If you change that to “Immediately” then you won’t get the nudges to reboot.
In theory, updating offline (i.e. applying only after a reboot) can bring more stability (as it says in the screen). But personally I do immediate updates (via the command line, not KDE Discover though) and I haven’t seen any problems resulting from this.
Some updates will not take effect until you do some action.
For the kernel a reboot to boot from the new kernel.
For code used by services you need to restart the affected services.
For C runtime almost all running programs are affected.
I use this command to find out if a reboot is required.
