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by magicalhippo 1117 days ago
KDE Neon has done this. Before I had to reboot anyway because usually the desktop was full of random crashes if I updated without rebooting.
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Ahhh. As a first thought, that sounds like you could have restarted your desktop (eg logout -> login) without needing a reboot.

On a related topic, Ubuntu has an optional package that can be enabled to automatically restart the various systemd components that need it after their dependencies have been upgraded. From memory, that's specifically so people don't have to reboot unless it's really needed.

I don't remember the name of the package off hand though, but someone else here might... :)

I tried the logout/login dance several times, but it didn't always work. A reboot doesn't take much longer anyway so...
Yeah, makes sense for that situation. :)