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		curt15 on Nov 16, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Who Will Buy Canonical and SUSE? Canonical is already moving to a Microsoft-style update model for some of its software. https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for...

dorfsmay on Nov 16, 2019 [–]

For a desktop on the other hand, this is great.

People are used to having their phone constantly upgrading automatically, which make it hard to explain to non-technical users why they need to `apt upgrade` regularly.

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