• 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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    4 months ago

    Fedora is the immutable I was referring to that does need to reboot. Linux Mint and OpenSuse only need to reboot after an upgrade. I’ve never had to reboot them after updates. Mileage may vary, of course, as different people have different software, tools, and libraries installed.

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      4 months ago

      I was talking about regular fedora. It’s not that you have to reboot, but you don’t get to use those updates until you do. The most obvious example is updating the kernel and its modules.

      • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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        4 months ago

        You’re correct. A kernel update would fall under the umbrella of a system upgrade, where the system needs to shut down to allow underlying components to be reloaded.

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      4 months ago

      to be fair, fedora downloads and apply the update before reboot, windows download, apply and then reboot, that’s why it take so much time

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        4 months ago

        Right, but Fedora failures allows me still to boot. Windows failures forces an uninstallation of the update, killing even more time. There are good and bad things to each approach.