Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login (was: Re: [Fwd: Update manager])

[Wouter Stomp <wouterstomp@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:38 PM, David Siegel<david.siegel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Most of us would be perfectly comfortable initiating an update on shutdown,
> and walking away from our machine, but I'm not sure if less sophisticated
> users are similarly comfortable behaving this way.
>

Most users don't care about updates and don't want to care about them.
Ideally all updates should be installed automatically in the
background without the user noticing anything. There is a strong study
by google favoring silenty updating the browser, as google chrome
does: http://www.techzoom.net/publications/silent-updates/index.en
Quote from the conclusion: "With silent updates, the user does not
have to care about updates and system maintenance and the system stays
most secure at any time. We think this is a reasonable default for
most Internet users. Furthermore, silent updates are already well
accepted for Internet Web applications." Of course this has some
downsides, but in the end, I think this is the way to go, not
bothering the end user with any computer maintainance tasks.

Cheers,

Wouter