Comment by tacticus
11 years ago
Ever tried to install an update to .net and powershell automatically without a restart remotely?
You need the wrappers of defined state or sccm just to survive. Winrm can't even touch it. (except through ugly as sin scheduled commands)
To be honest: No experience with that.
But that's yet another example of something that has no relationship to the core clr (-> bundle, local installation, 'just a dependency').
So yes, Windows needs restarts to update some files. And yeah, for most stuff / everything but the kernel (?) you don't need that on Linux.
No relation to the ease of deployment of .Net, especially not the open source/cross platform thing that started this thread.
It is literally as easy to deploy as any application on your platform and doesn't need to be deployed explicitly.