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Windows VS Linux (part 2)
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No restart require on Linux is a joke, right? Because I get updates that require restarts as often as I get them on Windows when updating Mint.
Unless you're updating the kernel itself, there is little chance you actually need to reboot your machine. Just restarting whatever service or application you're using should do the trick.
Just following the update manager instructions
You do you, it can't hurt to reboot and work on a fresh restart. But if for some reasons you need to keep your machine up, you'll know it is less of a problem than on windows typically
Even with kernel updates, you can use something like ksplice or kpatch to update it without rebooting. It's usually only used on servers though.
And on some distros you can also just reload the kernel without rebooting
Yeah, but you're going to pay for that.
Not necessarily, you can use
kexechttps://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kexec
Yeah, when you use Arch, you may not pay in money, but you are going to pay, lol.
That's just a doc, kexec is also available on Fedora, Debian, Centos, etc.
Besides a kernel update... Which one?
Honest question, as I usually just restart to be sure I haven't missed to restart a service or something, but theoretically I could restart every program and service, that got updated.
Maybe Mint is very conservative here...
Fedora requiers them all the time. Sometimes there is a driver update in there.
they're not required, only the update manager thing wants you to. if you update via dnf you don't need to restart 90% of the time
There should be an option in the settings to disable restarting to apply updates (though I only kno2 it exists on KDE)
Fedora issue. I restart my Debian machines maybe once every 4-6 weeks.
Arch is on the bleeding edge and it doesn't ask for a reboot. I think it asks for a reboot to load the kernel parts that have updated. Arch probably just assumes you'll do it eventually, but if you don't it'll just keep running the current kernel.