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Make you reboot? More like "suggest a reboot", and not after "many updates" bit after installing a new kernel or graphics drivers on a running graphical desktop environment. Typically, the latter can also be handled on the command line, and the reboot suggestion is for less tech savvy users
They tell the user to reboot, and they don't phrase it like it is optional. It's been a while since I've used Ubuntu, for example, but my memory is that they say that a reboot is required, or something along those lines. There is nothing wrong with my using the phrase "make you reboot" for those cases.
When I was using Ubuntu, I'd get a reboot request like once every couple of weeks to a month. Maybe you don't think that's "many updates", but the point of the sticker was obviously to compare to other operating systems, and in that regard, it was similar to Windows, probably more frequent.
Ok two things here:
Would you prefer a long winded explanation of which services need to be restart and what it means that your kernel version was updated along with a description of kexec and when/how to use it? I think it makes more sense to recommend a reboot and let people who know those lower level details do as they please.
They're probably talking about offline updates, which are used by Fedora and Ubuntu. They do require you to reboot to apply the updates.