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Never-before-seen Linux malware gets installed using 1-day exploits(arstechnica.com)

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Molecular0079@lemmy.world
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There is occasional weirdness if you don’t powercycle though. In particular, certain KDE updates will make the desktop misbehave until you reboot. I get where you’re coming from though. Quick updates and the ability to decide when you want to restart means that I have no qualms about updating frequently.

I am on Arch too and pacman -Syu is usually a snack I have with my morning tea.

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XTL@sopuli.xyz
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If the desktop misbehaves, just restart the desktop (log out and in again)?

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coolmojo@lemmy.world
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You can log out, then CTRL + ALT + F1 , log in and run the update command. If there was no kernel update, you don’t have to reboot. If some service got updated restart the service (if that was not done by the updater.) Then you can switch back to the graphical session usually by CTRL + ALT + F7) and log in again.

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Molecular0079@lemmy.world
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Problem with this is that it’s really hard to figure out whether some update to some minor library is going to affect an application. Sometimes you don’t even know which applications are using that library.

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