bc of its heritage of use in server environments, where you do not want autoupdates on for stability, only when inititated by admins
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That’s exactly where I want security updates. In fact, I want them everywhere :)
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I have managed server farms and you do not want auto update on thousands of machines, it would be very unpredictable and bad
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and I know, at that level you should be managing those settings explicitly regardless, but still, it is that level of scale thinking..
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...that is influencing the decisions around these defaults. I'm speaking as a 20+ year sysadmin and longtime Ubuntu user, not theory.
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Fair enough, I don’t manage server farms, just our apps so, for me, it’s a lifesaver :) (Not theory either, just a different use case.)
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Exactly, and they have entered a local optimum for an uncommon use case regarding that default
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do they have a separate category for security updates? In general the user has to say the word and it's assumed they know what they're doing
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You really want to hand over code of what runs on your operating system to a company that puts Amazon links on the default desktop?
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This is apt – so Debian?
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It's Ubuntu, not Debian. I find it funny that you think control of what code runs on your machine should be determined by someone else
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Funny humourous because of your normal position. I guess it boils down to views of responsibility and ownership. Perhaps we differ there
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Because sometimes it breaks your system (ie: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74287 …).
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Mint is that way too. Plus given a medium risk rating. How does a security update have a medium to high security risk trating?
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Too bad QA to afford instantly updating whole userbase.
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