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

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        It comes in 3 forms.

        1. Update small system components (packages) and load the old into ram until rebooting; I don’t think this is possible on windows.
        2. A/B Image Based Updating; Android and a few Linux distros have this; probably one of the most stable methods.
        3. 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.
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        As much as I don’t like window I want to see it get better :)

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

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        You only rarely update the kernel though

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

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          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.

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        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).

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      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

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

      Can you provide me with an .exe of it?

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        Does office365 support linux?