Linux Mint has found a good way to encourage us to upgrade without bothering us too much

Linux mint: Update

- Linux Mint he takes his time to do certain things, and that usually results in good decisions. Months ago, they debated what to do to be able to offer their users the Chromium browser without forcing them to use the Snap version and, after weeks of debating, in the end they decided to compile it themselves and add it to their repositories. The last thing they have been dealing with for weeks is the topic of updates, and you know what they are going to do.

The problem, as we explain last month even coming to think that they could take drastic measures, is that many Linux Mint users they never update anything. En el this month's newsletter They explain that they have spoken with some of them, and most of them answer things like that it is that they have never considered it because they have never felt the need. After listening to them, the team led by Clement Lefebvre thought that they had part of the responsibility.

Linux Mint will display a warning, but it will not be intrusive

So with all that said, this is what we did. We designed a notification system that acts as a friendly and welcoming reminder and we were very careful not to make it a nuisance. Although it displays the same information as the tray icon, the notification is more conspicuous and creates an opportunity for the user to easily accept or dismiss it.

Notification to update

Basically, and if I remember correctly, it is a bit like what other operating systems do: show a notification that comes from wherever the notification center is (top center in GNOME or bottom right in Plasma, for example) and that we can accept or reject with just one click. In addition, Linux Mint will offer us the option to activate automatic updates in the same notification.

The advertisement will appear if something important has not been installed for 7 days of use or 15 business dayseven though the computer has been turned off. The values ​​can be modified from the settings and go down to 2 days or go up to 90.

For our part, we always we recommend having the equipment well updated. We can miss a software update if it goes well for us, we depend on it and we are concerned about the change, but security updates are always better to install. And in Linux Mint this will now be easier.


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  1.   usuario15 said

    Admittedly, when they raised the issue last month, I thought they were going to implement a more "aggressive" system to force people to upgrade their PCs (what's more, I was considering switching distro if they adopted very intrusive strategies).

    Finally, I think the solution proposed by the LM team is quite reasonable in the face of the neglect of users to update their equipment.