Okay, maybe I made a poor choice in distribution, but this rather astounds me.

I decided it's been too long, and that I wanted to try running Linux dual boot on my machine again, just to see where it's gone in the last few years. Went to get Debian, my trusty friend, but decided to give one of these new distro's a look-see, since they didn't exist last time I ran Linux.

Ubuntu. Installed pretty painlessly, except for telling me that a partition of 120 gigs was too small for it, and eventually after haggling with the partitioner finally let me create one at 50gigs size. No biggie.

Installed 107 updates immediately after installation. Ahhhh, one of my favourite parts of Linux. Daily security and bug fixes, all the time. Constant up to date software availability.

WAIT. What's this? Ubuntu is telling me I have to reboot for changes to take effect? Wtfh? One of the primary strengths of Linux back in the day, besides being hella stable and secure was the fact that you never had to reboot for anything. Installation, updates, bug fixes, no reboot required.

Is this some Ubuntu queer logic that thinks it can make people more comfortable if its more like Windows? Or did something seriously go wrong in the years that I've been gone?
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