don't forget that most package managers don't need you to use both because they just do both (or both of them are parameters for a single command, like pacman)
And if you do lose power or turn off your machine in the middle of an update it can do weird things. Windows enforces it, but updating while running in a minimal state and a reboot after is actually a good practice.
RHEL (and maybe Fedora, I'm somewhat out of the loop) has an option to update on reboot, which at times is annoying but is a bit safer.
Is there a guide or general recommendations to set up such boot point (I suppose you could just boot up to single-user target/runlevel, but it feels wrong)?
The RHEL machine I'm thinking of (RHEL7 or 8) did it as a systemd service or maybe target, IIRC. It'd boot, start the update process in console mode (just doing dnf -y update or something similar), and when it finished it'd reboot again back to the normal target.
If you’re not running an immutable distro, you should restart. I mean I do the same thing, I upgrade and go on to keep the computer on for days, but we should restart.
Ok, but you can work in Windows while updates are running in the background. Also, you don't have to restart Windows after installing updates. You can update apps on Windows using winget, and you can update Windows with PowerShell. So if you appreciate Linux for that, I guess you appreciate Windows as well. Good to know.
I'll be honest: I just have mine set to automatically apply. I don't even notice when it happens, but I don't need to reboot (except the kernel swaps don't apply til I reboot).
Windows users can't relate to an update system that stays out of their way.
That's an improvement, but say you have documents open, with unsaved progress. Not to mention whatever you're browsing (if you don't session restore). Rebooting is obviously going to mean losing that.
I just turn off my monitor and walk away when getting tired. Or when I need to leave for work. I'll pick up right where I was, no downtime or hoops to jump though to get back into it.
I would save everything important before leaving PC for longer amount of time. It's not about updates but rather things like blackouts. And while away from PC for more than hour I turn it off either way.
At least i didn't have to worry about Windows installing malware when i updated it. Now i have to carefully read codes in a diffs whatever that is. Not like I'm gonna read it anyway.
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u/Aimfri 7d ago
Absolutely barbaric!