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    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
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      3 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… 🤷🏼‍♂️

    • superkret@feddit.orgEnglish
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      3 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.

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Mine doesn’t reboot on it’s own and I don’t recall ever changing any settings to prevent it other than messing with the thing OP is talking about which wouldn’t let me turn it off. I get nag screens daily after a while but it never actually restarts. Maybe one of my applications prevents it or something.