• Ulrich@feddit.org
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          2 days ago

          Brother, I am not a programmer and do not know what any of these words mean, and am not interested in becoming one. I just want to use a computer. This is precisely why I can’t use Linux.

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            10 hours ago

            You think you can’t use Linux because you can’t set up something to automatically install updates? Nah, don’t worry about that. You really still can. You don’t need to know what a cronjob is lol. (Just some commands that run on a schedule.)

            • Ulrich@feddit.org
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              7 hours ago

              You think you can’t use Linux because you can’t set up something to automatically install updates?

              No, because doing anything in Linux is DIY in the terminal. I don’t have time for that. I have a job already.

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            2 days ago

            Then how do you know that the magic spell I gave you doesn’t do it “automatically”? Either you’re lying and you actually a programmer, since we know you need to be a programmer to be able to read, or you somehow figured out how to read it without being one, but that would be crazy, absolutely crazy.
            Anyway, if for some reason you need your system to decide when to update and reboot, there is an easily googlable setting for it, and if you just need to emulate window’s “update and shutdown” button, I gave you it for my preferred Linux distribution, and it’s not more complicated on all the other ones.

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              2 days ago

              Because I know enough to know that commands don’t run themselves.

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                  2 days ago

                  I am not a programmer and do not know what any of these words mean

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                1 day ago

                Well, “update and shutdown” button is a button, it also doesn’t press itself. I hope you’re being intentionally obtuse, at least this way someone is having fun

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                  1 day ago

                  No, but the updates are downloaded automatically and the button is changed from “shut down” to “update and shut down” automatically. And I don’t appreciate your unwarranted insinuations.