Even back in the Windows 3.1 or 95 days I didn’t have to reboot this often - sometimes twice a day. Seems a bit excessive?
Like the other comment mentioned, you don’t need to reboot, unless you’ve updated the kernel.
If you somehow downloaded by mistake an immutable system, like Fedora Silverblue or Fedora Kinoite, know it’s not the classic way to manage Linux systems.
But even with an immutable distro you don’t have to reboot. The updated image just gets downloaded in the background and booted into when you restart. There is no harm in still being booted from the old image id you don’t specifically need anything only included in the new one. Nothing forces you to reboot.
Silverblue is my daily driver. Everything is in flatpaks, which update automatically, or in distrobox which I have a bash script that updates automatically.
System updates download in the background and just boot automatically the next time you boot up. I just ignore them.
you should only need to reboot when updating the kernel. Why are you rebooting? Is it because the system is unresponsive?
I’m using the KDE version and updates come in automatically through Discover. They almost always announce in the system tray that a reboot is required.
You also don’t have to reboot when Discover says to. It’s just saying that the updates won’t take effect until you reboot. It could probably be worded better, for sure.
I think that installing new versions often means that particular services need to be restarted. Rather than implement logic to restart relevant services, it probably just says “fuck it, reboot”.
On the other hand you rather have to put a gun to the average GUI user’s head to get them to reboot ever, otherwise the computer will sit there for months on end until finally they shut it down once and it can finally apply updates.
Interesting, I assumed I’d have to live with it… Would changing that setting be a bad idea?
sigh… i hate to say it but do your updates via command line because it will actually tell you if you need a reboot. As said above, it should only be for Kernel updates, and even then it will tell you that it will switch kernels next reboot and keep running on the current one.
Most desktop applications for doing updates ask you to reboot not because its needed, but because they are being “safe” or not running with the same user rights as you are in the terminal.
Why does no other distro do that though? I’ve tried a bunch before and this is the first time I get that notification sitting there taunting me.
If you’re using KDE, you can go to System Settings > Software Updates and
- Set the notification frequency to weekly or monthly to reduce the number of update notifications.
- Disable offline updates. This will install updates while you’re using the system and you can choose to reboot when/if you want.
Opening Discover will check for updates and, if updates are found, show the tray notification regardless of your notification frequency and when you last updated.
Fedora does roll out updates pretty much daily, which can be annoying, but you can choose what and when to update.
Dude just change discover’s update mechanism in the settings. Discover usually reboots to install updates so that nothing goes wrong. You can change it though, so that updates are applied instantly. That way you’ll only need to reboot for kernel updates.
Can you provide more details on why you were forced to reboot so regularly?
