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Why? It directly results in almost every Windows update requiring a reboot to apply, compared to usually only an application restart or at most desktop logout/login on Linux.

Having to constantly reboot my computer, or risk missing important security patches, was very annoying to me on Windows.

I've never had to reboot after updating glibc in years of using Linux, as far as I can remember.



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