[conspire] An actual Linux technical question

[syeedali at syeedali.com]

On 2025-12-11 12:40, paulz at ieee.org wrote:

> ...
> A couple times I have gotten a surprising message that the computer 
> needed to be re-started to finish the update.  That is a standard 
> "feature" of Windoz, but I'd never encountered that in all the years I 
> have used Unix and various Linux distros.  What happened?

Ubuntu.

The best I can guess is there's a major change to systemd or something 
to do with the kernel (like security).  Heck, maybe rebooting is their 
answer to restarting the window manager.

I use Lubuntu on occasion and I haven't needed to reboot.