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To: George from New England

You just update. Only time it needs a restart is when certain system files or the kernel get updated and even then, it’s a pretty quick restart, unlike the 15-20 minutes Windoze takes. Most of the time you just update it and keep on keeping on with whatever you’re doing.

I see my update icon is red(Kubuntu w/Plasma desktop) so that means security updates. Done in less than two minutes and no restart. Gotta love it.

One bad thing Ubuntu or maybe the upstream Debian started recently is unattended upgrades. I think it’s for when a bug gets found that makes the OS vulnerable to hacking via internet. They usually require a restart and that’s the only way I know they happened. Suddenly get a popup out of the blue to restart.


66 posted on 03/11/2026 11:23:12 AM PDT by Pollard (It's just another few hundred $$$)
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To: Pollard

You say — you just update ...

Well I have two browsers running 24/7. I get cursed twice a day to update them. I stream audio and my browsers will run all week. There is no way I know of to stop this pop up update crap on ubuntu.

I use Brave and Firefox. Brave has like 4 windows and 50 tabs open 24/7.


132 posted on 03/12/2026 2:24:16 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: Pollard

You say — you just update ...

Well I have two browsers running 24/7. I get cursed twice a day to update them. I stream audio and my browsers will run all week. There is no way I know of to stop this pop up update crap on ubuntu.

I use Brave and Firefox. Brave has like 4 windows and 50 tabs open 24/7.

Now that I let ubuntu update my firefox, the audio streams stop after a minute of playing.

I hate this — if it ain’t broke, why force a sudo fix !!!


133 posted on 03/12/2026 2:30:05 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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