To be honest: No experience with that. But that's yet another example of something that has no relationship to the core clr (-> bundle, local installation, 'ju

To be honest: No experience with that. But that's yet another example of something that has no relationship to the core clr (-> bundle, local installation, 'just a dependency'). So yes, Windows needs restarts to update some files. And yeah, for most stuff / everything but the kernel (?) you don't need that on Linux. No relation to the ease of deployment of .Net, especially not the open source/cross platform thing that started this thread. It is literally as easy to deploy as any application on your platform and doesn't need to be deployed explicitly.