Some of you may be aware of the apt update and apt upgrade commands, these are great for updating your Deb packages but they don’t touch the Snap packages, for these, you need to use snap refresh. Until a few months ago it seemed like these were updating on their own, but recently I’ve been getting notifications saying that updates are ready to be applied this means more work for me! On top of the “other software” problem, you also have Snaps. Unfortunately, “other updates” such as browser upgrades are only mentioned to users once a week but they don’t install automatically, the user has to do it. Despite these perks, the additional package formats such as Snap, are complicating things a little bit.Ĭanonical has set up Ubuntu so that security updates are downloaded and installed in the background. You can also see exactly what’s going on during the update, there are no ambiguous messages that make it look like something has crashed. Not only are they simple, but they’re also very fast, a clean install of Ubuntu, for example, can be brought up-to-date within 20 minutes or so. One of the reasons many people use Linux instead of Windows is the simplicity of installing software updates.
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