I have seen many people use terms like ‘soft reboot’ while their game was in loading screen. What does it mean and how is it different from the normal reboot button on your phone? Can we do soft reboot manually or do we require to set up something? I have also seen hard reboot so is it contrary to soft reboot?
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Soft reboot – restarting a computer via software. For example, after Windows Update installs some updates, it requires a restart.
Hard reboot – restarting a computer via a physical switch / button. For example, if Windows locks up or stops responding, the computer can be restarted by pushing the reset switch / button.
A computer is made of layers upon layers of complexity and interfacing parts. The lowest layer on this on the software side is the kernel, it is basically the software that interacts with your hardware and does the very basic stuff, like “Who gets to use the CPU and when” basic.
In a hard reoot, everything is restarted all the way to the lowest layer. In a soft reboot, some of the lower layers are not rebooted. This saves time, as you don’t have to shut down and restart the lowest layers, but it is obviously useless if you wish to restart the lowest layers.
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