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minus-square@naeap@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilink12•1 day 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-square@naeap@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilink4•1 day 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?
minus-square@some_random_nick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink6•1 day agoFedora requiers them all the time. Sometimes there is a driver update in there.
minus-square@IHateReddit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink9•1 day 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
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…
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?
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