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Why does Discover offer me to "update" GNOME if I'm using KDE Plasma?

Does this even make sense to you? I acknowledge I am not an experienced Linux user yet, but this seems most weird to me; why would KDE Plasma offer me to update GNOME?

For context, I am using Debian 13 Stable, which I installed just with KDE Plasma - so I’m not running more than one DE, nor did I install more than this.

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@unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml · Mar 20

All (well, almost all) the “App Store” apps like Discover are merely frontends for your system’s underlying package manager (apt for Debian and derivatives, dnf for Fedora and its derivatives).

The underlying package manager does the updating of packages: if you’ve installed it through the package manager (which is usually most stuff on an install) - it’ll get updated. Discover just gives you a nice, user-friendly way of interfacing with the package manager(s) on your system so you don’t need to bither with the CLI if you don’t want to.

And yes, you can have multiple - for example apt and Flatpak. Discover and friends should update all.

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