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You can do the same on Windows, though this isn't done for client editions as they're mostly for interactive use - and on Linux you might run into issues the more complex dbus-y GUI bits you use too. There's even kernel hot patching, although it's exclusive to some cloud server editions as they're a known environment compared to desktop systems.

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Yeah, it's an interesting relative of the CAP Theorem space, from what I can see of it: In theory Windows has most of the raw engineering tools to do hot-patching similar to Linux. In practice Windows seems to prefer for interactive users a Consistency/Fewer "Partitions" over Availability and shifts that position for server SKUs. Arguably an interactive user is much more likely to have problems with an Inconsistent OS state and see more "weirdness" from partitioning/splits in the OS state than a server app in a (relative) steady state with well known to the OS dependencies.

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