image caption: A Microsoft Windows screen showing “Active Hours” with start time set to 12 AM and end time set to 12 AM and an error that says “Choose an end time that’s no more than 18 hours from the start time”.

  • superkret@feddit.org
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    5 months ago

    Same goes for Linux and macOS, actually, but Linux will happily let you keep your machine vulnerable to getting hacked for months.

    Linux “reboots” every program and service it updates separately.
    So the only update that needs a reboot is one of the kernel, which doesn’t happen often.
    With Enterprise Linux, you can update the kernel without a reboot, too.

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        5 months ago

        Obviously there’s a small handful of things that would require a reboot, but unlike Windows, the vast majority of programs in user space don’t require reboots on update.

        There’s also the fact that restarting Windows to update is a much slower and more disruptive experience than restarting Linux.