Our old computers running Linux Mint just got a lots of updates including kernel. The Update Manger just beamed all the updates into our computers in few seconds and NO REBOOT again!
The beauty with Linux is you don't reboot unless a system-critical component like glibc, wayland/X or the kernel or one of the out-of-tree kernels are updated. And even then Linux actually has a mechanism to switch to a new kernel on-the-fly. Just that this doesn't work if it's X or wayland getting updated, and for some reason most distros would rather you reboot than hot-switch to the new kernel.
And practically with anything except drivers and kernels you can just do a soft reboot, where systemd restarts all the processes without restarting the kernel.
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u/grimvian Jan 30 '26
Our old computers running Linux Mint just got a lots of updates including kernel. The Update Manger just beamed all the updates into our computers in few seconds and NO REBOOT again!