Re: update not working correctly

2019-12-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/7/19 9:09 PM, Tim via users wrote: The notion of only rebooting when you really need it has gone right out the window, to be replaced by the Windows-centric thinking that it's easier just to reboot rather than assess whether it's really necessary. Non-technical users don't need to run int

Re: update not working correctly

2019-12-07 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2019-12-07 at 09:14 -0500, John Mellor wrote: > As an aside, for some weird reason way beyond what makes sense on a > machine with an inode-based filesystem, the Gnome software tool has > a problem where it almost always wants to reboot to apply the > changes. That's an inconvenience that

Re: update not working correctly

2019-12-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2019-12-07 at 09:14 -0500, John Mellor wrote: > As an aside, for some weird reason way beyond what makes sense on a > machine with an inode-based filesystem, the Gnome software tool has a > problem where it almost always wants to reboot to apply the changes. > That's an inconvenience th

update not working correctly

2019-12-07 Thread John Mellor
I update my desktop machine every few days, normally using the Gnome software tool from the updates tab.  This is a fast i7 with a good SSD and 32GB of memory, and it normally boots to login in about 5 seconds. As an aside, for some weird reason way beyond what makes sense on a machine with an