the default for some distributions these days is to apply updates on restarts (which produce win-like update progress screens) instead of ‘immediately’ (and leaving a kernel update hanging and waiting for one). it is also often a user-configurable option for handling updates.

here’s fedora, as an example:

and if you tell your linux to install updates ‘automatically’, they will come in… ya know, automatically… like windows. i’ve yet to see one ‘force’ a restart, though… like windows likes to do.