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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source by lxgr on Monday May 19, 2025 @05:52PM (#44035298)
It does happen, but it's pretty rare compared to Windows in my experience, where inconvenience is essentially guaranteed.

Firefox on Linux did not really enjoy being updated while running, as far as I remember; Chrome was fine with it, but only since it does some extra work to bypass the problem via its "zygote process": https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/l...

Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source by pxc on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @08:51AM (#44041008)
Works fine with Nix and Guix since it doesn't replace JS or other shared config files in-place to perform updates