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Microsoft wants to update your Windows 11 PC without forcing you to reboot (www.windowscentral.com)

submitted 8 months ago by catculation@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] PINKeHamton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Linux has this

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Cool, so its possible then! I hope Microsoft makes it functional for Windows, too.

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It comes in 3 forms.

Update small system components (packages) and load the old into ram until rebooting; I don't think this is possible on windows.
A/B Image Based Updating; Android and a few Linux distros have this; probably one of the most stable methods.
Live boot updates/Kernel-space Hot Patching; found mostly in Linux servers, and distros with a patched kernel; used mostly for security updates which is what windows is doing here, but Linux can do feature updates this way too.

[–] PINKeHamton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 8 months ago

As much as I don't like window I want to see it get better :)

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How many people are actually using kexec to update Linux without rebooting?

[–] pipe01@programming.dev 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You only rarely update the kernel though

[–] mark3748@sh.itjust.works 12 points 8 months ago

Yeah, only four times this week. Rolling distro life.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

Windows is very lazy about reboots. Minesweeper changed? Better reboot.

Chrome also got infected with this laziness. It used to be that you had to restart chrome once a month, now it's almost every day. Among many other reasons, that's why I'm happy to be using Firefox again.

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago

Ubuntu has live patching free for personal use built right in. It's not exactly a niche thing.

(I don't bother on most machines because I reboot my laptops every day anyway, but you know; nice for servers and whatnot).

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

What's Linux? This is the first in hearing of this here on Lemmy.

Can you provide me with an .exe of it?

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It seems like Microsoft is going through a real phase of "I made this" and they're adding all these features that were core to Linux since damn near Linux's inception.

Multiple desktop instances, sudo (which isn't the same sudo...), and now trying to mimic the rebootless update.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish when?

[–] drog4fun@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

The chrome OS is method is pretty cool having a mirrored partitions the one not being used gets updated if there's an error the other one gets booted and reverted