I usually update through dnf but sometimes Discover says there is a “system upgrade” with however many packages that are pending upgrade, but no details provided. It requires a restart after completing.

What is the difference between the two?

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    4 days ago

    Discovers talks to PackageKit, a project that attempts to abstract packaging concepts. So rather than Discover supporting dnf, apt, pacman, etc, it talks to PackageKit and that handles the lower level stuff.

    But PackageKit is not perfect. It’s better to use dnf directly and use the flag for offline upgrades (for more reliable upgrades).