Timely system updates are very important for security. It is very convenient to have notifications about new updates on desktop/panel. This is perfectly implemented in mint, mx and other distros. Many users do not check updates - one of my friends installed Kicksecure and has not updated system for a long time. He thought that there were no new updates. Such tool in new versions of Kicksecure would add convenience and security to users.
Thank you
I second this, something like this could be achieved through apt with a file called Kicksecure-Patcher or something which is a script that installs or removes programs according to the latest build version.
this article recommends a self cli-update. do you think it is better than not to know about new updates and than to use notifications from third-party apps/scripts? but maybe kicksecure will cli-notify about new updates and recommend cli-update in terminal? I am against auto updates, but notifications about new updates are convenient and safe. I agree that user does not always remember about updating without notification. especially new users. I am not a newbie, but I rarely check for updates - I do not think about it
I am using whonix. In whonix gateway and workstation, there is a “system check” application. I put a desktop shortcut for it and click it when I start the vm.
Maybe there is a way to run the system check application automatically on startup, but I am not a developer and not a linux expert, so I do not know.
I also do not know if there is an equivalent application on kicksecure.
One thing I wish that the system check application did do was to check outdated flatpaks as well as the debian repositories. Maybe in the future I will make a launcher that runs “upgrade nonroot” and “flatpak update” sequentially and put it on the desktop to click.
edit- It seems to not allow me to do this.
user@host:~$ flatpak update & upgrade-nonroot
[1] 15542
Looking for updates…
Hit:1 tor+https://deb.kicksecure.com bookworm InRelease
Hit:2 tor+https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:3 tor+https://fasttrack.debian.net/debian bookworm-fasttrack InRelease
Hit:4 tor+https://deb.whonix.org bookworm InRelease
Hit:5 tor+https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:6 tor+https://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:7 tor+https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports InRelease
Hit:8 https://packages.element.io/debian default InRelease
Reading package lists… Done
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
Calculating upgrade… Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.[1]+ Stopped flatpak update
user@host:~$
systemcheck is available on Kicksecure.
Documented just now:
autostart systemcheck
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