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[David]

On 21/7/24 18:40, Frank O'Connor wrote:
> They update, yes … but I’ve yet to hit a Windows driver update that didn’t need a reboot. I could be wrong, but I don’t think so. I do use a third party driver and software updater utility, in preference to updating through Windows, but I think the same update then reboot is necessary in Windows.

I very rarely see a required boot after an OpenSuSE update.  When an update is initiated using the command line interpreter (CLI) rather than automatically, zypper always suggests rebooting to take advantage of the update*IF* any running programs are using an updated executable, and it suggests a command which lists them.

AFAIK all kernel updates are originated by the Linux organisation and are the same for all distributions.

But to err is human, and being able to revert to a previous bootable image is critical IMO (not to say fundamental) especially when playing with sensitive areas of the system.  I think the number of rollback images is only limited by available storage, and a new image is written whenever any one of a number of listed user- or system-level changes are made.  And of course there's a CLI utility.

I'd have thought this was all fairly basic stuff.

_David Lochrin_