Comment by gh02t
7 years ago
To be fair, a lot of Linux updates require a reboot or at least a logout to properly take effect, too. Windows is just very aggressive about forcing you to upgrade and reboot, which does undeniably have security benefits when you consider that Windows has a lot of non-technical users and a huge attack surface. At least they have relaxed it a bit, the frequent forced reboots caused me some serious problems on a Windows machine I had controlling a CNC machine.
Windows also requires rebooting for the actual upgrading process. A Linux update might need a reboot to take affect but the reboot is still a normal reboot, it won't take longer because it's trying to install something.
Both Windows and macOS suffer from this. Big updates to both systems can render the computer unusable for 30 minutes while they are installing.
This is true. Fedora now only has a Reboot and Update button in the GNOME Software GUI because some software like Firefox and some GNOME components crash if you update them while they're running (although this seems to happen more often with Wayland than Xorg for some reason). At least Linux and the BSDs give you a choice whether to do offline or online updates.
Interesting... I did a upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10 at same time that I was playing Stellaris. Zero issues.
I can report I've had firefox go weird on Linux if something like a font is updated while it's running.