I started daily driving Linux since I left school this year and used it before but mainly windows because school wanted us to run Word, Teams, etc. Today I wanted to play games and haven’t set up my device for gaming and didn’t want to download the game twice (good internet). Like a good PC user I wanted to do my updates. It really sucks on windows. I had three windows updates to make, one crashed. It rebooted my device 4 times. Also I needed to update other drivers and applications. Now I really appreciate package managers more than ever before.
I can’t even bring myself to use the gui update tools on distros that have them. It just feels like doing anything with extra weight strapped on to every limb.
The Update tool in Mint is actually pretty sweet because it checks and updates apt and flatpak all in one go
Nobara has a similar tool. Now when i see the package manager’s update icon in the tray, I just hit the update script instead.
I’m on Fedora Silverblue (via uBlue), get the best of both worlds which is quite nice - I run
just updatein a terminal and it updates the system image (and anyrpm-ostreeoverrides), updates all Flatpaks, and then for all of my Distrobox containers it runs that distro’s package manager update command.Never got a chance to use Mint’s update tool, and was only on Nobara for a couple of days, so its been nice to finally be able to experience a nice “all-in-one updater”.
Opensuse and a couple other distros I tested can do this too right out of the notification panel which is thankfully easy enough for my parents and grandparents. I still end up using the “quake style terminal” most of the time and just flatpak through the notification sometimes.