What are the advantages of fedora's way of doing updates?

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Fedora has about (or at least) four ways to install updates.

  • There are different package managers: dnf and PackageKit.

    • dnf is a command line tool (sudo dnf update), and
    • Gnome Software uses PackageKit.

  • Then, there is online updates and offline updates. Online updates install while your system is up and running (on-the-fly). For offline updates the system is booted into a special system update mode, see link. Both dnf and PackageKit can perform offline updates.

For dnf, there is a GUI in Fedora repos called dnfdragora (sudo dnf install dnfdragora). You can also use dnf to install your updates offline, see link2

Here is another topic that may interest you:

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/what-is-the-difference-between-updating-using-dnf-and-using-gnome-software/76841

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