Comment by hulitu
14 hours ago
> Are you aware that MS already sells an operating system that can install patches without rebooting?
No. Which OS is that ? Even to update Office they throw an annoying popup and then another one to start the update and a dark pattern (close button accesible with a hidden scrollbar and no window controls) one to tell you it is finished.
Server 2025. They upsell it as a subscription because they can. Before that it was also available in Azure.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/blog/2025/04/...
It is security patches only. To take all the other patches you do need to reboot, which is why it still has quarterly reboots. No real OS has solved this problem.
A 90% answer is better than no answer, which is what we've had for 40 years now.
Linux only requires rebooting for kernel updates, and with kpatch not even that.