Microsoft wants to update your Windows 11 PC without forcing you to reboot

So you mean they want windows to have something that Linux has had for 20 years? Android has also had this since ~2017 too.

Linux has this

I remember some years ago there was a "malware" going around that would flash OpenWRT onto people's routers, and set them to have more secure default settings.

There should be another thing like that, but one that upgrades Windows into a Linux distro.

Even if Windows does this, trust me, if you have any Razer products, Razer will fill in the gaps for them.

That shit restarts my Windows machine nearly every fucking day.

Had a movie stop playing the other week (I use my PC as a Jellyfin server and watch on a Nvidia Shield in another room). I thought something had crashed, but when I went upstairs to check, it had realised nobody was watching it and fucking rebooted.

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I used to want this, but the latest updates of windows have all been so buggy. I'd prefer to not have this shit happen in mid usage. They once fucked up the search by accident and it was disrupting enough to my workflow until I found ways to disable the search being a default web search.

So in other words the

HI WE ARE GETTING THINGS READY FOR YOU

Screen can just pop whever it wants for 20 minutes at a time without warning? Yay...

Microsoft have done this previously and shelved it because their method had enormous security issues.

I don't see this going well for them.

This was the pipe dream for many many years now. Not the first time MS is talking about it either.

It's a thing in the Linux world and it's just too costly to support and therefore most user facing distros outright don't support it.

So according to the official page on Hotpatching (without any trackers like in the article), this reminds me of kpatch. I guess Microsoft really wants to spend the effort of making that work. Isn't kpatch not really supported (without $$$) by many larger distros since it's prone to break easily?

Didn't they say the same when they were developing windows 10? I don't believe it's gonna happen.

So in other words yet another thing that Linux already had for the past 20 years? Go on like this and in 50 years Microsoft might actually have a capable operating system.

Dump windows, Install Linux, stop paying Microsoft money for badly designed crap that will spy on you.

So they are going back to the way Linux does it since forever?

Why not just go image based? Instant reboots and even faster updates.

me looking out on the sea of windows users like, oh the humanity

Cant upgrade to 11, since my motherboard is too old. So reap what you sow, perhaps ?

Everyone wants this.

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It keeps trying. I keep denying it.

I would far rather pay a fee for an OS, like I did for every computer I built up to Win 7, and not have to deal with M$oft’s BS and ad-pushing.

Haven't everyone install linux yet?

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Who cares? It's not exactly traumatizing to reboot your computer.