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Microsoft wants to update your Windows 11 PC without forcing you to reboot (www.windowscentral.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] toastynugs 110 points 10 months ago (2 children)

My android phone and Linux computers all still want reboots after updates...

[–] [email protected] 106 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Linux only needs a reboot if you want to update the kernel, normally.

[–] lurch 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

but in that case you can often kexec to restart linux faster, skipping the actual BIOS/UEFI boot.

also, some distros offer live patching of kernel code for $$$

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You don't need to pay money for live patching.
They really just make you pay for having them do it for you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think you forgot to mention what distro you are running.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

PotatOS btw.
installgentoo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Eh, it depends. Other low-level things (systemd, glibc, etc) need a reboot too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Technically, but it's safer to reboot nonetheless: https://fedoramagazine.org/offline-updates-and-fedora-35/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Colonel updates require a reboot, but just normal application updates do not. And most system updates do not. I partly misspoke about Android. I should have been more clear because I was referring to the A/B partition scheme, but yeah, to run the new system does require rebooting.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (3 children)

*Kernel

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago

Colonel Kernel

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It was the British spelling.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

😂 As a Canuck, we use both. But the computer term is definitely Kernel. Unless we're marching out on a battlefield....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Seven bugs and crashes