I’ll take a program that isn’t getting updates anymore or simply wasnt working in my modified environment using slightly more ram and storage over it not working at all.

I have firsthand experience with videogames made for one flavor of Linux not working on my machine due to dependency hell.

This is a good reason for static linking. All the dependencies are built into the binary, meaning it is more portable and future proof.

We don’t need flatpak for this!

It isn’t being pedantic to call out this specific comparison as being unfair. You can still have your other examples.

This specific one (Green and Green) is what is being discussed. Don’t use worse examples when (allegedly) better ones exist.

Yes. Using kexec.

Though this is irrelevant for majority of users: I’ve never seen it as the default.

That +

WARNING: Use with caution! Kernel crashes, spontaneous reboots, and data loss may occur!

gives me the idea that its likely safer to just do a proper reboot, if your alternative is kernel patching or loading a completely different kernel.

Plus, its likely that not every single bit of firmware running on your devices support live patching. Thus you will be rebooting eventually, unless you are fine with avoiding the updates.

I’m excited for my cursor to not get trapped in a window anymore.

On Wayland at least, u can completely disable pointer constraints. Thus, a game window freezes, it doesn’t lock your cursor in it.

With X11, the only solutions I found were basically recompiling the X11 code. Thus, I deal with one game window making my cursor disappear and frozen inside itself, affecting all other Xwayland windows.

Annoying and ridiculous. Hopefully not long before wine-wayland matures enough to fix this.

Generally no. There are some parts of your system that you will have to reboot for (like the kernel). But apps? Installing a new service?

No.

Most systems you just install the app you want, and run it.

There are some immutable distros the require things that are installed as part of the base system to only be available after a reboot, but they provide ways to install things without making it a part of the base system. Thus no reboot required.

Is what necessary?

I had to update a Chromebook-like machine that was running Windows not to long ago. It was excruciating. The restart progress bar on one update after reboot took ~30 minutes to reach 3%.

Keep in mind that the computer is unusable during this time, and all it takes is one poweroff to brick the machine. Ask me how I know :) . I had to leave it plugged in overnight to finish.

If this comment is referring to Windows reboots after update, I will call it confidently incorrect.

Discord servers are just groups. Lemmy “instances” are actual separate instances of Lemmy communicating.