I’ve been around for a while and this is the first time I’m seeing something like this. I’m wondering if I picked up something nasty or if this is something that other people are seeing.
I’ve been around for a while and this is the first time I’m seeing something like this. I’m wondering if I picked up something nasty or if this is something that other people are seeing.
Fedora does this too, it’s really obnoxious.
Yeah fedora does it even for small updates, not just kernel updates. But only if you update through the store.
In KDE at least there’s a toggle to switch that behaviour. It’s in System settings -> Software update -> Apply system updates. If you switch it to “Immediately” you get the standard package manager behaviour. Not sure if gnome has an equivalent.
You don’t need to do offline updates. Dnf update still works like it always has. However offline updates are more reliable.
I ended up switching to Fedora Silverblue since I really like the idea of ostree and simple change control.
Also RHEL-based distros (tested on AlmaLinux). I think it’s alright.
Meanwhile Arch is like: You got problems after updating the kernel, systemd and sway? Well either you need to reboot, or you’re fucked till the next patch lol
Or, maybe a reinstall would help.
Nah, actually never had to reinstall. Not even after switching devices (Laptop -> Laptop), by just copying over /dev/sda3 to /dev/main/root, only “reinstalling” grub (grub-install) and recreating swap (on /dev/main/swap).
It’s just unnecessary, Debian based doesn’t do this at all so updates are like 10x faster.