It is said that ¹ when using the new software or a toy or a gadget, your initial impressions are always positive. You find the problems only after using it for some time.

My first impressions is that was snappy, and it still is.

But what I noticed in last two months, is about the updates.

After each login, there is a popup with multiple buttons, most important (and useful) to me is Install Updates

Each Sunday, I religiously install the new updates.

After some weeks, I noticed that just like User Management UI is wrapper on useradd (See previous post), Install update seems to be a wrapper on apt-get update followed by apt-get upgrade

Why is that a problem?

Two things:

First, there is no way to stop the updates (if I need to, for some reason) Second, the progress bar UI is misleading.

Just like in the output of apt-get upgrade each package shows 0 to 100, which happens pretty fast, and then it goes back to 0 (and quickly to 100)

So if there are 50 packages being updated, user never knows how many are still pending.

So now I’ve stopped using the UI, and I fire up the terminal, and

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

I can Ctrl-C any time, and see specific messages as well, whether the package is getting downloaded, installed, being setup, or processing triggers.

Beyond that, nothing much to report.

The machine gets used only once (or twice) a week, and it works very well.