[intoverflow2]

Get this is OS X too these days during the early hours. Computer wont even be idle I'll literally be typing and suddenly my apps will start closing left and right as OS X has decided its time to update/reboot.

Classic example of Metrics Driven Design, if you start scoring a team's performance on how many people update to the latest version then the methods of forcing an update become more and more intrusive. No wonder Apple always boasts such great update percentages for iOS, the thing practically bullies you into updating, I had a 4S for a long time and had to dismiss multiple nags a day to update and threats to delete apps to make space for the precious update.

[x0]

What the hell setting do you have enabled where OS X does that? It doesn't even tell me about updates, I have to go check them manually in the App Store (which segfaults about half the time)

[cjsuk]

That only happens if you tick all the boxes in the app store preferences window. And that's not the default. So you had to tick it.

[intoverflow2]

It is by default I'm actually sitting on a fresh install as of a week ago on my work machine.

It probably retains a legacy setting if you updated but this is straight from Apple. I never even knew that preference box existed.

[oneplane]

It will actually both make a notification popup on "turning on automatic updates" which then directs you to a settings panel where you manually have to check the box.

[cjsuk]

Mine is a fresh install of the same vintage.