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Not really, the old way was that updating was an event and a task within itself, and your mom doesn't want to sit there waiting for updates to complete to write a letter or browse facebook. Silent, backgrounded incremental updates are the better fit for 99% of users.

Full disclosure: I use linux as my daily driver and don't have a windows installation.

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But it's not the old way, at least not for for MacOS (and last time I checked, Linux, which you use?).

Granted, the MacOS version upgrades are indeed _a thing_, and pretty annoying, but that problem still exists even with the incremental upgrades Windows does. There's just no way around certain types of upgrade that touch core components.

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