So a while back I threw Ubuntu 22 LTS on an old Surface Pro 3 and gave it to my Dad.

He loves it, but he’s the type who’s been burnt by updating software in the past, so he basically refuses any whenever prompted.

Been thinking about throwing Debian with Gnome on it for a while, and wondering if it’s stable enough to just let updates happen automatically in the background?

I got no experience with Debian I basically jumped right on EndeavourOS as my main distro when I started using Linux full time.

    • DigitalDilemma@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      Good call, thanks, although I just use -y normally.

      Not a personal fan of flatpacks - I tend to stick to distro packages, but each to their own.

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      4 months ago

      Since we’re talking Ubuntu, I’d add

      “flatpak update” and “snap refresh” to the cron