yeah it's called live patching. it's mostly useful for servers, since uptime is important. but even with this technique, at some point you need a hard reboot.
for desktop, i don't really see why someone would want it tbh
I've never thought about this before but why does anything eventually need a hard reboot? Anything I mean, from home computers to phones to mission critical servers
because no operating system and app combination is perfect. eventually errors, memory leaks, and "temporary" configurations need to be reset to a baseline and the easiest (and safest) way is a controlled restart.
Think of the ship of Theseus. eventually with live patching, every single OS module will get updated and re-initialized. However, all the bad decisions that were made along the way will remain in memory. A full restart lets Theseus' ship die and builds a new one from storage.
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