The horror is not how long booting takes, but rather if it’ll work
I’ve been patching and bouncing hundreds of machines automatically. The first decade, I was concerned and then merely observant. It’s been so reliable that I just stopped being concerned for the second decade. The last 5 years have been very occasionally (1%) unreliable, thanks to Lennart’s cancer, but not enough that I need to give it more than a glance. EL10 is a bit of a shitshow, so maybe the slow trend since el7 is continuing.
Kernel updates constantly on my distro. And with all the other various library and service updates it’s usually simpler to just reboot than restart everything individually anyway. So 9 times out of 10 I’m rebooting on an update.
I update every day. Things rarely go wrong. When they do, it’s fixing time, which I kinda enjoy. Only when I know that I really need the computer to work at next boot, will I delay updating.
Every day. There’s no point being an a bleeding edge distro if you’re not riding the edge 🤣
The horror of rebooting every day.
It takes about ten seconds. Thirty or so if you include all my running programs restarting
I shut everything down at the end of the day. Takes <30 seconds to boot up so it’s not really an issue
The horror is not how long booting takes, but rather if it’ll work
Ahh, fair. I’ve been running a fedora atomic distro for a while so that’s not really somebing I worry about anymore.
I’ve been patching and bouncing hundreds of machines automatically. The first decade, I was concerned and then merely observant. It’s been so reliable that I just stopped being concerned for the second decade. The last 5 years have been very occasionally (1%) unreliable, thanks to Lennart’s cancer, but not enough that I need to give it more than a glance. EL10 is a bit of a shitshow, so maybe the slow trend since el7 is continuing.
Linux doesn’t need reboots for regular stuff. Proper packages can update everything from sendmail to syslog and not need a bounce.
The only time you need a bounce is
That’s almost it.
Kernel updates constantly on my distro. And with all the other various library and service updates it’s usually simpler to just reboot than restart everything individually anyway. So 9 times out of 10 I’m rebooting on an update.
I update every day. Things rarely go wrong. When they do, it’s fixing time, which I kinda enjoy. Only when I know that I really need the computer to work at next boot, will I delay updating.
It’s not about worrying something will go wrong at boot, it’s just about the annoyance of losing my session.