No restart require on Linux is a joke, right? Because I get updates that require restarts as often as I get them on Windows when updating Mint.

Unless you’re updating the kernel itself, there is little chance you actually need to reboot your machine. Just restarting whatever service or application you’re using should do the trick.

And on some distros you can also just reload the kernel without rebooting

Yeah, but you’re going to pay for that.

Not necessarily, you can use kexec

wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kexec

Yeah, when you use Arch, you may not pay in money, but you are going to pay, lol.