I’m going to try and share with you what Linux has shown me what computers can do.
My first lesson is that even after updating 76 megabytes of critical system files, no restart is required. Now my Linux laptop hardly ever is turned off; it just hibernates. While on my windows pc, I have to restart a lot. (keep in mind that since I am using ubuntu 9.04, I get critical file updates almost every day.)
I’ve heard of hotswap (or something like that in Vista) that applies updates without restarting, however, it doesn’t work for all files and even restarts in the middle of a movie. Is that really necessary?
