• areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
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    17 days ago

    No Windows doesn’t do atomic updates in the background, that’s why there is the whole installing updates screen on reboot or shutdown.

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      17 days ago

      Yes it does? As far as I’m aware even Linux can’t apply updates to an active system.

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        17 days ago

        You vastly misunderstand both what I am talking about, and how updates work on both Windows and Linux.

        You don’t press shut down and then get a blue updating screen that stops you from doing anything on Linux. Go and update a Linux system and you will see what I am talking about. You run it just like a normal command or program.

        Also yes they update the files on the drive while the system is running.