Oh. I know it's not a nice word but didn't think it was bad enough to include on the same level as the n-word. Times do change I guess
It sounds like it's the kernel but whether it has anything to do with ssh, I really don't know. Sometimes parts work together in surprising ways, as I learned with the recent sshd/systemd/xz exploit.
You might be fine and this was the most alarming exploit since it's very inconvenient, but personally I'd restart just to be sure.
Windows Update is just dogslow and forces a reboot. For me even a significant distro update takes much less time and it doesn't force you to reboot (nor to update for that matter).
I don't have to reboot after an update very often, almost never really. It's kernel updates where I have to reboot, other stuff I can restart and avoid it that way if I still want to keep the pc on.
I know on some systems hibernation (suspend-to-disk) can be fiddly. For me it worked out of the box which was nice.
I've majorly fucked up some Windows install by doing that
Some package managers have a command to see if anything is in need of restart. Zypper has ps -s for example. I'd restart to be sure though.
I mean by all means. But banks and regular people aren't really in a comparable position, is what I'm saying. Maybe they should be but it's just not the situation right now.
I mean with the different rules based on sex/gender can cause this sort of issues, having just one retirement age for everyone for example could be easier