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What do you mean, automatically? Arch is a rolling release and I have to explicity run pacman with the correct flags to update. At the same time Debian, which is not a rollimg release, has the unattended upgrades feature which installs updates automatically.

But indeed, many things depend on the distro. For example, user-centric distros such as Elementary and others provide an easy to use GUI for updatomg the system.

And yes, Windows Updates was (is still? not a Win user) a nightmare.

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ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

What do you mean, automatically? Arch is a rolling release and I have to explicitly run pacman with the correct flags to update. At the same time Debian, which is not a rolling release, has the unattended upgrades feature which installs updates automatically.

I was thinking Tumbleweed, Manjaro and the like which have GUI updaters, lol. @pete_the_cat@lemmy.world was pretty clear that his parents are the ultimate Linux beginners; he’s not going to give them Arch or Debian out of the box and bark command lines at them.

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- pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I actually have given him Arch before, but I handled everything. They’re running Manjaro.
  
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