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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by mayo@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world

This is my most needed feature in linux. I want zero 'connect/disconnect' sounds and if the laptop is asleep I don't want it to wake up in the middle of the night for no reason.

I have an infinite supply of Windows laptops from work but I hate them with a burning passion and I can't afford to replace my Macbook.

If someone can tell me what linux distro is the most silent and least annoying I will erase my entire Windows partition this weekend.

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[-] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

It's doing the updates automatically in the background, but it applies them on the next reboot. It's easy to change that and manually update but I like how unintrusive it's been - I've had to go and check to make sure my machine is actually updating. And if for whatever reason the update breaks something I can roll it back and still have a working computer and deal with tinkering later, but it hasn't broken yet. I'm on Bazzite. It's opinionated and I definitely wouldn't recommend it to everyone, but I really like it.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Interesting. I really like the discrete nature of applying updates at will on pop os. I always despised windows doing it automatically

[-] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I despised Windows doing it automatically too, but that mostly had to do with how long it took, when it did it, and what those updates were. I think if Windows did updates like Bazzite, in the background while the computer isn't under heavy load, rather than taking five + minutes at shutdown when you just want to go to bed, and you never boot back up to find out that the update was nearly unremovable AI garbage or ads, it's better.

For the casual users who just want their computer to work, I think it's a good way of doing it if you can't do live patching for whatever reason, but for the OS as a hobby folks (I get it, no shade, lol) that you sometimes see in Linux spaces online, manual updates can be part of the fun.

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