Post #783315
2026-03-19 22:07 UTC
I usually do the updates in the evening when turning off my laptop. I click “update all” (or so) and then choose “shut down” in the selection that appears at the bottom. Then I can leave the laptop and it will automatically reboot to install the updates and then shut down completely.
Yes, that number of updates is normal
I don’t know of a way to (un)select specific “system”-packages within Discover
The updates are usually fine. I can’t think of any case where a routine update caused trouble for me. I prefer getting the security updates (and other improvements) quickly. Just once, I intentionally delayed the updates for a few days before an important deadline, where I needed my computer to work and wouldn’t have had the time to deal with issues
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@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2026-03-19 22:50
> I can't think of any case where a routine update caused trouble for me. I second this. Since about 2002, I've had a growing number of machines (ent Linux, similar to fedora) who simply patch nightly via cron. I get mail on the changes. In 24 years of `yum-cron` I've seen one error (busted deps on cobbler) and caused one error (too-old smb.conf during an update) and that's it. So, my fuck-up aside, the only issue I've seen with a yum-cron patching setup (in dev/test and homelab) in ~25 years is exactly one issue on boxes running a mainstream but not prevalent piece of software due to a packaging glitch. That's it.