(#53yowaa) @abucci I’ve never seen this feature being used “in the wild”, either. Not even sure if it’s worth the trouble. 🤷

What if I don't want to reboot my computer, Ubuntu? What then????

(#53yowaa) @movq I know right? It is weird. I can confirm it's not always shown. I've confirmed that it's shown when certain proprietary drivers are updated. For instance, I have an NVIDIA graphics card and I use their proprietary driver; whenever that is updated, a reboot is needed. I don't know if that fully explains it though. The NVIDIA driver doesn't update that frequently.

(#53yowaa) @abucci I _thought_ the Linux Kernel grew this ability to be able to hot reload itself without requiring an actual system reboot? But I _might_ be mistaken, as I cannot find such a feature anymore and the Web is total garbage for finding anything (despite Google).

(#53yowaa) @taigrr my OS does not do that in practice.

(#53yowaa) @taigrr Yeah I _knew_ this was a feature that was introduced some time ago, but as @abucci said, I've never seen it used in practise anywhere really 😢 -- Maybe it doesn't work very well? 🤔

(#53yowaa) @movq I'm never not in this state:

(#53yowaa) @prologic maybe it did, but if so that does not seem to have much impact in practice because I feel like I'm constantly being told to reboot

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(#53yowaa) @prologic @taigrr I've never bothered to track down *why* my computer wants to reboot and why the live patch thing didn't prevent the need to. If I had the time/inclination that'd be illuminating. Being an Old™ who has used Linux since 1996 (!!!), I've grown weary of providing free beta testing to the Linux community, though, so I tend to just suffer through annoying things rather than try to track them down and fix them.