I’ve been around for a while and this is the first time I’m seeing something like this. I’m wondering if I picked up something nasty or if this is something that other people are seeing.
Unattended upgrades or firmware update scheduled.
Here is a 2021 article with a screenshot pretty similar to what OP has there.
Debian 12 also does this. 😂
This is not new. Other distro have this too. In Gnome you will have a tick box in the Shutdown/reboot dialogue and you can opt-out of this offline update. If you update yourself with package manager, you will not need to go through the offline update.
Personally, I like it. It’s predictable, reboots once, updates, shuts off. Unlike Windows which will update, reboot, Update some more, get stuck for 30 minutes, reboot another time, finishing the updates and finally shuts down. And if you have encrypted (bitlocker or such) you have to attend the whole process and miss your fucking train and stay in the office 30 minutes more because of this BS. Sorry, I got carried away a little bit.
One of reasons why I love Ubuntu is because it updates live and rarely even asks for my password. I’d use any other distro, but they all want stupid password for ANY update and some demand you restart the system. So stupid.
I’ve not yet had such screen on any system. Is this LTS or regular?
Not sure how far it goes I just did a reinstall a couple of days ago for 24.10.
