On 12 September 2017 at 19:02, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> This wasn't necessary in earlier times. Two things: * It was, but people mostly pretended that Linux was better than Windows because the latter enforced it and the former didn't... * When it wasn't, it was because everything was less complicated, in a "you need to use a command line to mount a USB disk" kind of way. > I don't know if Linux needs to be rebooted after every update If you use a distribution method such as flatpak, one that's entirely designed to be safely live-updatable then rebooting is basically not required. Deploying a graphical application using a system-wide RPM package just doesn't make for an awesome user experience. Richard. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx