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"Fun" fact: Windows is finally just now, in the year of our lord 2026, trying to release some updates as "live". As in not requiring reboot.
It's going better than you'd expect, but still far worse than they have any excuse for.
thats only if it actually downloads and installs. our enterprise windows installs like to take 5-10 attempts to actually get the software onto the computer. "Install failed. retry?"
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Not exactly correct. They are releasing their hot patch service more broadly. These are updates that would normally require a restart no longer need to be restarted.
Just like Linux though, if you didnβt want to restart after updating you never really were forced to.
For those who are confident in their system setup
sudo apt update && sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y
First thing I do on a new system using apt is aliasing this to "UpdateSystem" in .bashrc
dnf update
apt has the added irk of being split into update/upgrade plus apt-get for scripts.
And the default apt search sucks lol
sudo zypper dup
This is the correct answer.
There's dozens of us!
A few dozens at least!!
[happy zypper noises]
choco upgrade all
Not a built-in, of course, but chocolatey gets you Linux-like package manager behavior on Windows. With it you can run headless software installs and automatically update software. It's great for remote/VM management.
I used chocolatey for a while on windows. I did like it, but due to some of the fussiness with it I found it was just better to put up with crappy .exe files
sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt full-upgrade && sudo apt autopurge
You forgot -y
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topgrade
On Fedora live update is turned of by default with a warning saying updating without rebooting is not recommended. As a cautious noob, I left it as is. Too cautious?
Yeah, rebooting just makes sure that everything is using the new updated packages, so if you update then reboot you'll be golden
No. Fedora sometimes updates configs or packages (e.g. kernel) that require a reboot to take advantage of. If you're a linux veteran you can decide by yourself if or if not you need to reboot. But fedora wants to have a stable and smooth experience for all its users.
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So Debian/Ubuntu still can't into auto update?
sudo apt upgrade -U -y
Apt-get is unnecessary nowadays, just use apt, especially for simple commands like this.
..and while it's running I'll check my email and post something on lemmy!
edit: literally just did this to make sure it would work. Tbh it was a little balky.