This is my one main complaint about Fedora Linux.

  • Voytrekk@lemmy.world
    77·
    5 months ago

    Those updates in Discover are for flatpak, not dnf. You can verify that with flatpak update.

    As for discover wanting to restart to do their update, that’s a fedora thing for an extra level of safety while updating. You can read about it here.

    • Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de
      331·
      5 months ago

      As for discover wanting to restart to do their update, that’s a fedora thing for an extra level of safety while updating

      That shouldn’t trigger for flatpaks though. No risk of breaking the system while updating flatpaks

  • NaN@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    101·
    5 months ago

    You can turn it off in the settings (may be system settings, think it’s called offline updates).

    It’s a feature Gnome added and then KDE added too. Fedora isn’t the only distro to implement it, but the most popular.

  • therealjcdenton@lemmy.zipEnglish
    61·
    5 months ago

    Discover checks knewstuff (global themes, plasmoids, etc.), Flatpaks, firmware and snaps, (which all have a relevant backend package something like (discover-backend-packagekit). Discover, well more like PackageKit, will let you know if a reboot is necessary if there’s something like a kernel update.

  • bruhduh@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 months ago

    I had reverse situation, discover said there’s none of apps i need or/and updates, while dnf was working flawlessly

    • Petar Kulić@mstdn.plus
      61·
      5 months ago

      @heartsofwar @UntouchedWagons
      I use Discover on Debian testing and Arch, never once did it force me to restart on Arch, but on Debian it would say it is recommended.
      I don’t think that’s forcing me to restart, so I guess Fedora does that differently. 🤔

      • drndramrndra@lemmygrad.ml
        3·
        5 months ago

        AFAIK no distro forces you to reboot, but they all require it for some updates to take effect. You can’t reload the kernel while the system is running.

        Fedora just makes that clearer to the user by only installing those updates when they’re going to be active - after a reboot. I think it also blocks new system updates until the current set is completely finished.

        You can disable offline updates in the system settings, but I think they’re a good idea, especially for the average user.

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
      1·
      5 months ago

      I agree that packagekit is annoying and I just have automatic updates in the background using flatpak update -y and rpm-ostree update.