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[-] Camille@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Just following the update manager instructions

[-] Camille@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 1 points 3 weeks ago

And on some distros you can also just reload the kernel without rebooting

[-] superkret@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, but you're going to pay for that.

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 0 points 3 weeks ago
[-] superkret@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, when you use Arch, you may not pay in money, but you are going to pay, lol.

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's just a doc, kexec is also available on Fedora, Debian, Centos, etc.

[-] dan@upvote.au 1 points 3 weeks ago

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.

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