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minus-squarenaeap@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·11 hours agoBesides a kernel update… Which one? Honest question, as I usually just restart to be sure I haven’t missed to restart a service or something, but theoretically I could restart every program and service, that got updated. Maybe Mint is very conservative here…
minus-squaresome_random_nick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·9 hours agoFedora requiers them all the time. Sometimes there is a driver update in there.
minus-squareIHateReddit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·9 hours agothey’re not required, only the update manager thing wants you to. if you update via dnf you don’t need to restart 90% of the time
minus-squarefogetaboutit@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·9 hours agoProbably driver update, like nvidia?
minus-squarenaeap@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·9 hours agoAh yeah, mostly kernel module updates go along with a kernel update. But you are right, yeah. Although, should be possible to just reload the module and restart X/Wayland, no?
Besides a kernel update… Which one?
Honest question, as I usually just restart to be sure I haven’t missed to restart a service or something, but theoretically I could restart every program and service, that got updated.
Maybe Mint is very conservative here…
Fedora requiers them all the time. Sometimes there is a driver update in there.
they’re not required, only the update manager thing wants you to. if you update via dnf you don’t need to restart 90% of the time
Probably driver update, like nvidia?
Ah yeah, mostly kernel module updates go along with a kernel update. But you are right, yeah.
Although, should be possible to just reload the module and restart X/Wayland, no?