Technology

58022 readers

4321 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

391

Microsoft wants to update your Windows 11 PC without forcing you to reboot (www.windowscentral.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

170 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

you still need to reboot your linux machine or relogin if you updated a process that's currently running (and in most cases most system processes can't be just restarted) (...and otherwise you'll just stay at the old version bit with new data which might cause some instability)

yes, there's kernel hot-patching but it only affects the kernel, only viable for minor and security upgrades, does not come pre-configured on most consumer distros and not really suitable for home use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And you're saying, you expect Microsoft to come up with something better?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

not really, this probably only applies to minor updates