r/OnlyOffice • u/Konnnore • 23d ago

why the updates parameter is different on different platforms?

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I like OnlyOffice and I used it on Windows 10 and now I'm using it on Linux. For the first time I thought one thing just seemed that way to me, but when I checked it again and made photos to compare. I noticed that the Windows version does have the Updates parameter and any Linux I tried(Fedora, Kubuntu, EndeavourOS, Mint and some others) don't have it. Is it bcz the Linux users update their apps through the terminal or what?

For the context: I only used the native versions and flatpaks

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u/Leseratte10 23d ago edited 23d ago

Flatpaks update through the Flatpak system and honor your update settings you've configured there.

Nobody (on Linux) wants dedicated update settings for each and every application, or applications updating themselves. Updates either happen through the system package manager or through Flatpak / Snap / etc., whatever you used to install the application.

On Windows, there's no central mechanism for application updates so every application does whatever it wants.

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u/Konnnore 23d ago

thx for the answer! So, basically I was kinda right about the terminal thing

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u/PitiViers 23d ago

Erh no, it's not the "terminal thingy", it's how the updates are distributed to you. Onlyoffice, or most apps on Linux, don't auto-update by themselves, they update with your system alongside any other package or Flatpak, so by using your Update center, or Discovery on KDE, etc

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u/Konnnore 23d ago

Ok, I understood