This is my one main complaint about Fedora Linux.

  • Voytrekk@lemmy.world
    52·
    3 years ago

    Those updates in Discover are for flatpak, not dnf. You can verify that with flatpak update.

    As for discover wanting to restart to do their update, that’s a fedora thing for an extra level of safety while updating. You can read about it here.

    • Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de
      231·
      3 years ago

      As for discover wanting to restart to do their update, that’s a fedora thing for an extra level of safety while updating

      That shouldn’t trigger for flatpaks though. No risk of breaking the system while updating flatpaks

  • Err(()).unwrap()@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    3 years ago

    If the kernel, initramfs, or a driver is updated, you have to reboot the computer to apply them (you can’t reload the kernel while it’s running). A user might not know or notice this, so GUI installers (and some CLI tools like pacman on Endeavour) often warn the user or sometimes force a reboot.

      • 520@kbin.social
        8·
        3 years ago

        I’ve never seen a distro force a reboot, Windows style. Only ever advise people to reboot.

        • lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.ml
          1·
          3 years ago

          Well, then I don’t understand the downvotes, lol. The person i replied to said sometimes a distro will force a reboot, I said that’s bad, and a bunch of people apparently disagree with that.

          • 520@kbin.social
            3·
            3 years ago

            So when people say ‘force a reboot’ there are two things it can mean:

            1. a reboot is required for updates to actually take effect. Linux sometimes does this for things like the kernel.

            2. the OS forces you to stop everything you are doing and reboots the machine. I have only ever seen Windows do this. Not Linux, not even MacOS.

            This might be where the confusion is coming in. @rtxn is referring to number 1 but the rest of us are referring to number 2

  • bruhduh@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 years ago

    I had reverse situation, discover said there’s none of apps i need or/and updates, while dnf was working flawlessly

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
      1·
      3 years ago

      I agree that packagekit is annoying and I just have automatic updates in the background using flatpak update -y and rpm-ostree update.