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    [–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    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...

    [–] fogetaboutit@programming.dev 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    Probably driver update, like nvidia?

    [–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    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?

    [–] fogetaboutit@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

    Practically speaking, restarting is easier anyway.

    [–] some_random_nick@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    Fedora requiers them all the time. Sometimes there is a driver update in there.

    [–] IHateReddit@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

    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