Hi Carlos, "My advice is to only run zypper dup when you intend to reboot or power off your machine afterwards." Are yours not mine. I'm aware that only specific updates need a reboot and that is a thing. I'm not saying "the machine should update without reboot", but "the machine should update before power off or on the next power on". An example: KDE updates every month, after zypper dup I'm not able to logout because the greeter crashes so I need to CTRL+ALT+DELETE to close X losing the current session. The same will not occur if the installation goes on on reboot or before power off. Better if the greeter asks me if I want to install the updates or reboot without. These are little stupid things but made life easier. With zypper we have snapshots but we use them only to go back. Why not use them to go forward? Patrick, my use case is similar, sometimes I reach a peak of 2 month uptime, I'm on NVIDIA and so I skip kernel's upgrade very often. Please do not use an innocent request to become aggressive. Thanks -- Daniele