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Iā€™ve tried unattended-upgrades once. And I couldnā€™t get it to work back then. It might be more user friendly now. Or it could just be me.

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Itā€™s not really user friendly, at least not how I know it. But useful for servers and when desktop computers are on for a long time. It would be a matter of enabling or disabling it with : sudo dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades granted that you have the unattended-upgrades package installed. In that case Iā€™m not sure when the background updates will start, though according to the Debian wiki the time for this can be configured.

But with Ubuntu a desktop user should be able to configure software updated to be done automatically via a GUI. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticSecurityUpdates#Using_GNOME_Update_Manager

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