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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    Out of curiosity: Which operating system(s) can you shutdown while the kernel is being overwritten? I wouldn't imagine that as a limitation of Arch Linux specifically.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Windows

    Goes back to a previous restore point

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

    I haven't used Windows since Win7 - Is it possible nowadays to immediately cancel a kernel-level upgrade (say, Win7 to Win8) and have it gracefully stop and then boot into the pre-upgrade environment? If so, then Windows has come a long way. We use to be careful breathing-too-loudly around Windows computers during the upgrade process. Microsoft must be getting better.

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