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This is my one main complaint about Fedora Linux.

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[–] Voytrekk@lemmy.world 77 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Those updates in Discover are for flatpak, not dnf. You can verify that with flatpak update.

As for discover wanting to restart to do their update, that's a fedora thing for an extra level of safety while updating. You can read about it here.

[–] Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 9 months ago

As for discover wanting to restart to do their update, that's a fedora thing for an extra level of safety while updating

That shouldn't trigger for flatpaks though. No risk of breaking the system while updating flatpaks

[–] Presi300@lemmy.world 54 points 9 months ago

Discover shows updates to both your flatpaks apps and dnf apps

[–] cheerjoy@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

Because those are Flatpak packages

[–] arisunz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Those are Flatpak updates. dnf can't see them I think.

happens to me in Arch with yay.

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 9 months ago

You can turn it off in the settings (may be system settings, think it's called offline updates).

It's a feature Gnome added and then KDE added too. Fedora isn't the only distro to implement it, but the most popular.

[–] murph@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 9 months ago

Try this: "sudo dnf update ; sudo flatpak update"

[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 months ago

Discover checks knewstuff (global themes, plasmoids, etc.), Flatpaks, firmware and snaps, (which all have a relevant backend package something like (discover-backend-packagekit). Discover, well more like PackageKit, will let you know if a reboot is necessary if there's something like a kernel update.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If the kernel, initramfs, or a driver is updated, you have to reboot the computer to apply them (you can't reload the kernel while it's running). A user might not know or notice this, so GUI installers (and some CLI tools like pacman on Endeavour) often warn the user or sometimes force a reboot.

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I had reverse situation, discover said there's none of apps i need or/and updates, while dnf was working flawlessly

[–] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Looks like flatpaks updates

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

pkcon refresh