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[Fedora 39] Why does Discover say there's updates while `dnf` say there's none? Also, why does Discover need to reboot to install said updates?(lemmy.ca)

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This is my one main complaint about Fedora Linux.

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520@kbin.social
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I’ve never seen a distro force a reboot, Windows style. Only ever advise people to reboot.

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Well, then I don’t understand the downvotes, lol. The person i replied to said sometimes a distro will force a reboot, I said that’s bad, and a bunch of people apparently disagree with that.

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Those distros “force” you to reboot when you want to update (as opposed to allowing you to do the update on the running system). Think Windows 7 and earlier, that kind of forced reboots, back when people were fine with the way Windows did updates.

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So when people say ‘force a reboot’ there are two things it can mean:

  1. a reboot is required for updates to actually take effect. Linux sometimes does this for things like the kernel.

  2. the OS forces you to stop everything you are doing and reboots the machine. I have only ever seen Windows do this. Not Linux, not even MacOS.

This might be where the confusion is coming in. @rtxn is referring to number 1 but the rest of us are referring to number 2

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