I started daily driving Linux since I left school this year and used it before but mainly windows because school wanted us to run Word, Teams, etc. Today I wanted to play games and haven’t set up my device for gaming and didn’t want to download the game twice (good internet). Like a good PC user I wanted to do my updates. It really sucks on windows. I had three windows updates to make, one crashed. It rebooted my device 4 times. Also I needed to update other drivers and applications. Now I really appreciate package managers more than ever before.

  • Grass@geddit.social
    15·
    1 year ago

    I can’t even bring myself to use the gui update tools on distros that have them. It just feels like doing anything with extra weight strapped on to every limb.

      • Grass@geddit.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Opensuse and a couple other distros I tested can do this too right out of the notification panel which is thankfully easy enough for my parents and grandparents. I still end up using the “quake style terminal” most of the time and just flatpak through the notification sometimes.

      • irmoz@reddthat.com
        2·
        1 year ago

        Nobara has a similar tool. Now when i see the package manager’s update icon in the tray, I just hit the update script instead.

        • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’m on Fedora Silverblue (via uBlue), get the best of both worlds which is quite nice - I run just update in a terminal and it updates the system image (and any rpm-ostree overrides), updates all Flatpaks, and then for all of my Distrobox containers it runs that distro’s package manager update command.

          Never got a chance to use Mint’s update tool, and was only on Nobara for a couple of days, so its been nice to finally be able to experience a nice “all-in-one updater”.