Not completely but kind of, all those poweroff, reboot etc. tied to systemd, though I believe this is mostly related to polkit run out of time. Can be fixed with a longer timeout. This also happens to me on Arch and yeah it’s kinda annoying.
Normally updates don’t change a thing on Linux since the system runs on RAM. However, with these systemd updates, things have changed. Without systemd, it’s still the same more or less.
you mean the menu that will make your system unstable if you dont reboot immediately after updates?
Not sure what that is or what menu it is. But yeah, the updates are not automatic, you have to manually start it. That “must restart after the update” thing is related to systemd, not openSUSE.
If someone wants an auto update system, that can be arranged with scripts. No idea where that could be done via GUI though. Sorry, I cannot check it right away since it’s not my system. I don’t use openSUSE or KDE myself.
Not sure when the last time you used openSUSE but the reason why I think it’s noob-friendly is you don’t need a terminal to update the system (talking about the KDE version here). When there is an update a notification pops up, you go to system tray, click on the icon and do the updates. You can even see a list what’s been updating. It doesn’t even ask a password, probably thanks to polkit.
They’re fine for a stable release I think. Nvidia is on 550 for example. For Major updates, ping me next year since I’ll try it then, when new Leap arrived.
Leap is surely noob-friendly.
Stop trying to make me feel old. :(
Oh, I meant a running system. Usually you would only need to reboot if you want to use the new kernel right away after an update. For most of the programs, you don’t even need to restart them if they’re already running. However, if you restart them they will run as the newer updated version.