On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:38 PM, David Siegel<[email protected]> wrote: > Most of us would be perfectly comfortable initiating an update on shutdown, > and walking away from our machine, but I'm not sure if less sophisticated > users are similarly comfortable behaving this way. >
Most users don't care about updates and don't want to care about them. Ideally all updates should be installed automatically in the background without the user noticing anything. There is a strong study by google favoring silenty updating the browser, as google chrome does: http://www.techzoom.net/publications/silent-updates/index.en Quote from the conclusion: "With silent updates, the user does not have to care about updates and system maintenance and the system stays most secure at any time. We think this is a reasonable default for most Internet users. Furthermore, silent updates are already well accepted for Internet Web applications." Of course this has some downsides, but in the end, I think this is the way to go, not bothering the end user with any computer maintainance tasks. Cheers, Wouter _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
