Micro wrote:Just want to point out a couple things when it comes to updates and upgrades, regardless of Operating System:
1- Reading and understanding what the updates/upgrade are is half the battle, whether it's from synaptic, update manager or bash.
2- (very imp. and this is where most issues occur) If you are using multiple sources/ppa's make sure that you do not mix software and dependencies from different areas. Keep them specific to one source.
I completely agree, and I don't think update manager is useless/broken, it is more of an issue of it constantly telling people to update and when they do it through terminal it doesn't acknowledge it on 3.4 and 3.5. Then there is a bigger problem of just words
Update and upgrade are not the same thing.
upgrade and dist-upgrade are not the same thing
I just think if you removed update-manager from the equasion it might be more helpful although the Black Opal solution that you know who above mentioned is maybe more ideal with just having the distro preset to not look for newer versions.