And you will never know if the updated libs cause segfaults (at best) or shenanigans (at worst). You can replace the open files on Windows (most oth time, see

And you will never know if the updated libs cause segfaults (at best) or shenanigans (at worst). You can replace the open files on Windows (most oth time, see my other comment here), but the decision to reboot is not a technical one (and back in the days many invested in no reboot upgrades) but to have less headache on a corner cases.