Auto-launching of applications

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Ante Karamatic wrote:
> While I'm not a fan of auto launched applications, I can confirm that
> users[1] don't notice or/and don't update their systems. They don't see
> that icon as something important and never click on it. They've used to
> having lots of icons in Windows' tray and they just ignore them. In my
> observations, users just don't care about updates. They would be
> happiest if updates wouldn't exist at all. Second best thing to that is
> not presenting updates.

Then why not do the following?

- Automatically install security updates by default.
- Revert the update-manager prompting change.

As Martin pointed out, there's no hurry in bug fix updates.

Cheers,
Emilio

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