[mothered]

You should try switching to something like Linux as your primary operating system. Then, you will almost always be able to update without rebooting. When the time would indeed come to have to reboot, just stop updating, I guess.

Whilst I certainly agree, the Issue on my end Is compatibility with tools and applications- all are dedicated to the Windows platform.

Having said that, I do have Linux running on simultaneous VMs and given my hardware can well and truly accommodate It, there's minimal difference In functionality and stability to that of a physical machine.

[Percent]

You should try switching to something like Linux as your primary operating system. Then, you will almost always be able to update without rebooting. When the time would indeed come to have to reboot, just stop updating, I guess.

Whilst I certainly agree, the Issue on my end Is compatibility with tools and applications- all are dedicated to the Windows platform.

Having said that, I do have Linux running on simultaneous VMs and given my hardware can well and truly accommodate It, there's minimal difference In functionality and stability to that of a physical machine.

You could even use Wine on Linux, which would most likely be able to run your Windows software.

[mothered]

You should try switching to something like Linux as your primary operating system. Then, you will almost always be able to update without rebooting. When the time would indeed come to have to reboot, just stop updating, I guess.

Whilst I certainly agree, the Issue on my end Is compatibility with tools and applications- all are dedicated to the Windows platform.

Having said that, I do have Linux running on simultaneous VMs and given my hardware can well and truly accommodate It, there's minimal difference In functionality and stability to that of a physical machine.

You could even use Wine on Linux, which would most likely be able to run your Windows software.

Absolutely. I'm not sure whether every Windows application and tool can execute In Wine, though.

I've yet to delve Into the updates In Linux. Is It similar to that of Windows, whereby It's disabled with a click of the mouse? I assume (as you've mentioned), most Linux Distros do not require a reboot.

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Whilst I certainly agree, the Issue on my end Is compatibility with tools and applications- all are dedicated to the Windows platform.

Having said that, I do have Linux running on simultaneous VMs and given my hardware can well and truly accommodate It, there's minimal difference In functionality and stability to that of a physical machine.

You could even use Wine on Linux, which would most likely be able to run your Windows software.

Absolutely. I'm not sure whether every Windows application and tool can execute In Wine, though.

I've yet to delve Into the updates In Linux. Is It similar to that of Windows, whereby It's disabled with a click of the mouse? I assume (as you've mentioned), most Linux Distros do not require a reboot.

Most Linux distributions (Debian, for example) do not automatically update out of the box. You have to manually update them by executing commands in the terminal. In Debian, it is usually "apt full-upgrade" (preceded by "apt update" to update your sources list first) as root to upgrade all of your packages (system), and this tool is dependent on your sources list (your list of sources of where to obtain packages from, and therefore upgrades).

It is possible to make the system automatically upgrade in a scheduled manner, however. On Linux, if you truly wish to not receive any upgrades, just don't execute the commands needed to upgrade your system in the first place. For extra comfort, just delete (or erase the contents of) your sources file.

[mothered]

You could even use Wine on Linux, which would most likely be able to run your Windows software.

Absolutely. I'm not sure whether every Windows application and tool can execute In Wine, though.

I've yet to delve Into the updates In Linux. Is It similar to that of Windows, whereby It's disabled with a click of the mouse? I assume (as you've mentioned), most Linux Distros do not require a reboot.

Most Linux distributions (Debian, for example) do not automatically update out of the box. You have to manually update them by executing commands in the terminal. In Debian, it is usually "apt full-upgrade" (preceded by "apt update" to update your sources list first) as root to upgrade all of your packages (system), and this tool is dependent on your sources list (your list of sources of where to obtain packages from, and therefore upgrades).

It is possible to make the system automatically upgrade in a scheduled manner, however. On Linux, if you truly wish to not receive any upgrades, just don't execute the commands needed to upgrade your system in the first place. For extra comfort, just delete (or erase the contents of) your sources file.

Thanks for the In depth explanation.

If the updates/upgrades do not Install (autonomously) unless a command Is executed, this suits me fine:

On Linux, if you truly wish to not receive any upgrades, just don't execute the commands needed to upgrade your system in the first place.

I've used the apt-get update command many times, but I assume this Is Isolated to packages from all repositories.

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Absolutely. I'm not sure whether every Windows application and tool can execute In Wine, though.

I've yet to delve Into the updates In Linux. Is It similar to that of Windows, whereby It's disabled with a click of the mouse? I assume (as you've mentioned), most Linux Distros do not require a reboot.

Most Linux distributions (Debian, for example) do not automatically update out of the box. You have to manually update them by executing commands in the terminal. In Debian, it is usually "apt full-upgrade" (preceded by "apt update" to update your sources list first) as root to upgrade all of your packages (system), and this tool is dependent on your sources list (your list of sources of where to obtain packages from, and therefore upgrades).

It is possible to make the system automatically upgrade in a scheduled manner, however. On Linux, if you truly wish to not receive any upgrades, just don't execute the commands needed to upgrade your system in the first place. For extra comfort, just delete (or erase the contents of) your sources file.

Thanks for the In depth explanation.

If the updates/upgrades do not Install (autonomously) unless a command Is executed, this suits me fine:

On Linux, if you truly wish to not receive any upgrades, just don't execute the commands needed to upgrade your system in the first place.

I've used the apt-get update command many times, but I assume this Is Isolated to packages from all repositories.

No problem! What do you mean by the command being isolated to packages from all repositories?

[mothered]

Most Linux distributions (Debian, for example) do not automatically update out of the box. You have to manually update them by executing commands in the terminal. In Debian, it is usually "apt full-upgrade" (preceded by "apt update" to update your sources list first) as root to upgrade all of your packages (system), and this tool is dependent on your sources list (your list of sources of where to obtain packages from, and therefore upgrades).

It is possible to make the system automatically upgrade in a scheduled manner, however. On Linux, if you truly wish to not receive any upgrades, just don't execute the commands needed to upgrade your system in the first place. For extra comfort, just delete (or erase the contents of) your sources file.

Thanks for the In depth explanation.

If the updates/upgrades do not Install (autonomously) unless a command Is executed, this suits me fine:

On Linux, if you truly wish to not receive any upgrades, just don't execute the commands needed to upgrade your system in the first place.

I've used the apt-get update command many times, but I assume this Is Isolated to packages from all repositories.

No problem! What do you mean by the command being isolated to packages from all repositories?

In other words, Is the command dedicated only to downloading & updating the package (lists) from the repositories, or does It perform other functions/updates?

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Thanks for the In depth explanation.

If the updates/upgrades do not Install (autonomously) unless a command Is executed, this suits me fine:

I've used the apt-get update command many times, but I assume this Is Isolated to packages from all repositories.

No problem! What do you mean by the command being isolated to packages from all repositories?

In other words, Is the command dedicated only to downloading & updating the package (lists) from the repositories, or does It perform other functions/updates?

Yes, the "apt update" command only updates the lists, and will not update your actual packages. If you ran "apt full-upgrade" before updating your lists with "apt update," you would not see any available upgrades as your package list is not up-to-date.

[mothered]

No problem! What do you mean by the command being isolated to packages from all repositories?

In other words, Is the command dedicated only to downloading & updating the package (lists) from the repositories, or does It perform other functions/updates?

Yes, the "apt update" command only updates the lists, and will not update your actual packages. If you ran "apt full-upgrade" before updating your lists with "apt update," you would not see any available upgrades as your package list is not up-to-date.

Got It, you've answered my question perfectly, thank you.

I haven't used Linux In an In depth manner since the days of BackTrack, so I've lost a lot of what I knew with commands etc. I have various flavors of Linux running on my VMs which I'll periodically get back Into as I did with BT.
Thanks again.

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In other words, Is the command dedicated only to downloading & updating the package (lists) from the repositories, or does It perform other functions/updates?

Yes, the "apt update" command only updates the lists, and will not update your actual packages. If you ran "apt full-upgrade" before updating your lists with "apt update," you would not see any available upgrades as your package list is not up-to-date.

Got It, you've answered my question perfectly, thank you.

I haven't used Linux In an In depth manner since the days of BackTrack, so I've lost a lot of what I knew with commands etc. I have various flavors of Linux running on my VMs which I'll periodically get back Into as I did with BT.
Thanks again.

You are absolutely welcome, @"mothered"!

Although you are probably already aware, I will point it out anyway for other users: different distributions usually have different package managers. For example, Arch Linux has the "pacman" command, all Debian-based distributions have the "apt" command, etc.