Linux Firmware Updating Growth Continues Amid Security Updates

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux Firmware Updating Growth Continues Amid Security Updates

The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for delivering firmware updates with the fwupd client for system and component firmware updates from Linux continues experiencing massive growth. Q4'2021 by far saw the most usage ever and that has continued into 2022 with serving more than two million firmware downloads the past month...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LVFS-January-2022-Growth

[anarki2]

Yeah, cool, except for the fact that this feature is on by default on Ubuntu. Which means it automatically updates your firmware without asking. Which is quite ridiculous given the fact that they REFUSE to do that with your OS packages. Buy a Landscape subscription, sorry!

Besides risking random upgrade failures, that also erases parts of the TPM area, which breaks automatic LUKS unlock, which means users can't even boot their workstations without direct, offline IT assistance.

So then you go ahead and disable and even mask the fwupd service, but then the Ubuntu Software Center or Store or whatever the feck it's called today will CONSTANTLY pop up random error messages about fwupd being "unavailable".

What a pile of miserable cr@p.