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by Symbiote 885 days ago
Disabling auto-updates on Ubuntu/Debian is, obviously, just a configuration option.
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wkat4242 885 days ago
True, I was thinking more of Windows and MacOS.

I chose FreeBSD for a few things like jails, ZFS as first class citizen and no corporate "invented here" crap like snaps.

But I really hate coming back to my pc after a few days and find that it has rebooted to install an update, all my open work be damned. There's no good way to turn that off, nor the telemetry.

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marssaxman 885 days ago
What is that option? I would love to disable firefox auto-updates.
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Symbiote 885 days ago
For normal Apt updates [0]

  sudo dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low unattended-upgrades
or edit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades.

For Snap [1]

  snap refresh --hold=forever firefox
Or for all Snap applications

  snap refresh --hold=forever
(Various other useful options are documented, like only updating at weekends, or when the application isn't running.)

[0] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticSecurityUpdates

[1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/930593/how-to-disable-autore...

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