Microsoft wants to update your Windows 11 PC without forcing you to reboot

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Microsoft wants to update your Windows 11 PC without forcing you to reboot
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My android phone and Linux computers all still want reboots after updates...

Linux only needs a reboot if you want to update the kernel, normally.

but in that case you can often kexec to restart linux faster, skipping the actual BIOS/UEFI boot.

also, some distros offer live patching of kernel code for $$$

Eh, it depends. Other low-level things (systemd, glibc, etc) need a reboot too.

"Colonel updates require a reboot, but just normal application updates do not. And most system updates do not. I partly misspoke about Android. I should have been more clear because I was referring to the A/B partition scheme, but yeah, to run the new system does require rebooting.