The Restart Prompt Is a Lie. Well, Not a Lie β But Definitely a Choice Someone Made.
Every KDE user knows the dread of ‘a restart is required to complete the update.’ But the daemon isn’t the villain β the real story is an architectural choice between stability and seamlessness. KDE picked the side that trusts your system tomorrow at the cost of annoying you today. Live-patching could eliminate the restart, but it would trade predictable friction for unpredictable failure.