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Originally Posted by DoctorOhh
The casual user that doesn't like the prompt would simply turn it off and never see it pop up again.
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It's not about not liking the prompt; it's about the frequency and prominence of the prompt skewing the user experience. People want to keep their software up to date, and if the program is telling them to update they feel like they
should update. Most people's experience of updates is security-oriented: Java updates, Windows updates, anit-virus updates, and etc. It's not the case with Calibre, but the psychology is still there. We want to see the prompt, we just don't want it to be the first thing we see
every time we open the program.
Implementing "recommended updates only" would improve the user experience and save Kovid bandwidth, and doesn't seem like it would take a lot of code (though I could be wrong there).