On 2019-12-09 12:31, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > Ok.....so I'm just gonna ask, because I've noticed something. There was a > time I could update my machine (Lenovo ThinkPad T-430 / T-420 laptops.) that > wouldn't take long and I'd be able to continue to use my machines for hours > until I was ready to either reboot, shutdown, etc. Is it me?...or has > recently Fedora started to behave like Windows?....in the fact that now when > I do updates?....I HAVE to reboot my machine!!!???? I thought the whole > premise of moving away from having to reboot for each and every update, > patch, and fix was one of the major reasons some people LEFT Windows to BEGIN > WITH!? Is this going to be the "norm"?.....is it because Microsoft has > integrated themselves within the Open Source community that now.....the > community is starting to behave like WINDOWS!?.....because if so?...I may > have to start looking for another distro. The days of me having to reboot > just because the SYSTEM wants me to?......SHOULD have ended with the > cessation of my usage of > Microsoft Windows.
I assume GNOME is your desktop, yes? Why not just update from the command line? "dnf update". Then you can decide if you'd like to reboot. -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
