Comment on Auto update

Jimbabwe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It says it’s going to update but instead of automaticall updating and restarting, it just downloads the installer and you have to execute it, set install location, give it admin rights etc.

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  • halvar@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    All that hassle when you could just run pacman -Sy qbittorrent…

    (I swear linux is not a cult and we especially do not sacrifice Microsoft developers every day to our three dieties Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman and Tux the Penguin.)

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    • HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Windows has this to if you know about it and then take like 10 min to set it up. Winget will update apps for you in the background or you can use the version someone built to use a UI to set it up called UniGetUI. I use it and it updates everything for me with no interaction. Im not thrilled with windows, but im just pointing out that it exists.

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      • TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It does, but it’s really not a good package manager especially compared to pacman. I have had it routinely break the path of some executables it updated, I always need to restart it after it closes the terminal when it updates it, and it sometimes just launches the updater of the app and you still need to click through the dialog boxes.

        It is more convenient than having nothing, I guess, but it always takes much longer than a pacman update. And it sometimes fails for no apparent reason.

        That being said, the person you’re replying to may end up having a nasty surprise if they keep doing pacman -Sy instead of pacman -Syu. That’s at least one problem that you probably wouldn’t have with Winget, admittedly.

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      and we especially do not sacrifice Microsoft developers every day to our three dieties

      Change that into “executives” and it may become a good idea.

      Also, extend that worldview! There’s nothing wrong with taking them from Oracle and other similar companies too.

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  • binarytobis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The worse version of this is when accepting the box for “Update now?” just opens a browser in their homepage and you have to manually download the installer.

    This blacklists the program.

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  • texture@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    i get this explanation and mostly agree, even though it uses the word “download” right in the pop up.

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• U7826391786239@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  it’s not “auto” if you have to run the file yourself? idfk

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• VeganBtw@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think it’s because we are used to software updating itself, not having to run the executable manually. I know it’s exactly the face I made when I first updated it lol

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• bebabalula@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It does not say that. It literally said that a new version is available and asks if you want to download it

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  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Technically correct but for most people this means “do you want to download and install the new version” not literally “do you want to just download the new version”

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