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  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Linux will happily let you keep your machine vulnerable to getting hacked for months.

    Sad you included this misinformation in your otherwise good comment. Linux fundamentally works different and you can often update binaries as well as the kernel without rebooting.

    And even if you couldn’t, that’s 100% a user problem. Every distro I’ve ever seen makes it clear as day when you do need to restart, so this is 100% a user issue. But I guess people will also complain if their OS forces them to reboot (like this post), so… 🤷🏼‍♂️

      • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I don’t know what Windows needs to do to get as good of a state as Linux but you rarely need to do a full reboot as you seemingly are forced to do on Windows.

          • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            It does tell me. Zypper tells it outright and you’ll get a list with zypper ps -s. But like said, it’s very rare that you need to actually reboot. Restarting apps or services suffices.

            I’m doing a lot more restarting on Linux than I ever need to do on Windows

            Don’t know what’s up with that. With Windows it nagged about rebooting constantly. Seemingly every update. Meanwhile Linux can be just fine without, some stuff you need to restart but actual reboot is much rarer.