I think the biggest problem with automatic updates is that it puts systems
at some non-zero risk for the sake of fixing something that probably isn't
relevant to their systems.
Wonderful point. I don't upgrade my system at all while I'm traveling.
Stefano
People who auto-login or never restart can be handled differently.
Personally, I auto-login, so I would not use this feature, but let's not
think of gurus like us, who participate on Linux mailing lists, and let's
think instead about the average user, who might be made uncomfortable by
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:02 AM, David
Siegeldavid.sie...@canonical.com wrote:
I think this is the ideal, but every time I start to bring up implicit
updates, I get smacked :)
Understandable.
I should also say that browser upgrades are different from whole OS
upgrade (not to mention we have
Would you mind showing us some evidence of said overwhelmingly negatively
reaction? From what I've seen on the mailing lists so far, those complaining
about the update pop-under mostly belong to a small, yet very vocal group of
power users.
Are you joking ?
Count the unique users on this
Awesome, right?
Not sure about what your whole reply meant.
I think that notifying on startup has many disadvantage and it's not
applicable in some cases (kernel upgrades, autologin).
It's not wonder windows why asks for it at the shutdown.
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We should definitely consider as many update scenarios as possible in order
to find the one that users will prefer. We are very quick to start
implementing updates and shut down without considering something radically
different because many of us have experiences updates at shutdown when using
I fully understand my idea came in a time where everything was
decided, but you have to let people express their vision, only
afterwards you can point out things out.
We're very interested in morphing windows, so thank you for exploring the
idea! In general, morphing windows should let us
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