Post #1568947

@Fishd @patnat Because it's not safe. Traditional package updates are inherently unsafe operations, but the more Other Stuff is running on the system when they run, the less safe they are. The safest thing is to have as little Other Stuff running as possible when doing the update, hence the offline update default. Desktops are especially prone to crashing in the middle of the update and taking it with them. Online updating is always possible, but we default to the safest available choice.