Patch day is once a month and takes 15 minutes at worst, sometimes only a reboot after the work day.
edit: Not to mention how upgrading Firefox on Linux-based systems through the console forced me to restart my Firefox mid-day, because "it works that way". Never had that on Windows.
Not everyone has top of the line or even mid-range hardware.
People like to dramatically exaggerate how long Windows update bind you each month. Probably no Windows users but it's an easy target.
- Everyone knows that car tabs have to be renewed by a deadline and everyone knows Windows has forced updates by a deadline.
- Everyone knows how to pay to renew their car tabs and everyone knows how to check the Windows update so that it updates when you have free time for it. And if they don't, it's just 5 seconds of Googling to find either.
- Everyone knows what is going to happen if they don't renew their car tabs or allow the reboot by a certain date.
- Everyone knows that neither the vehicle licensing authorities nor Microsoft is going to change their policies. It doesn't matter what people think the policy ought to be because it isn't that way and they know it.
So basically, they picked up a gun, took careful aim at their foot, pulled the trigger, and are shocked and angry that there's a bleeding hole? Sure, they can go ahead and change operating systems but it isn't going to fix the fundamental problem, if you know what I mean.
Also; where the do you live such that there isn’t a grace period on registration renewal? Do you think a car just stops working when that happens in the middle of your commute to work?
"Whoosh", as the kids these days say.
> "Also; where the do you live such that there isn’t a grace period on registration renewal?"
There's a grace period for forced reboots for Windows updates too and these users blithely ignored that. So what's your point?
What’s your point again, with all this bullshit car analogy? And why won’t you post your bad opinions under your real name?
You can defer it.
Update and reboot? Update and shutdown? Reboot/Shutdown without updating now? All three are possible, so it's fine.
Again, computers are our servants, not our managers.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/MOTILE-14-Performance-Laptop-FHD-...
Installing updates takes less than five minutes once a month.
I don't do media on it, so I've been quite happy running 9front lately.
There's your problem. Even the cheapest of SATA SSD will massively outperform almost any laptop hard disk drive when it comes to random I/O. And it'll probably increase your battery life a smidge as well.
I wouldn't put applications on any spinning rust these days, especially laptop 5400 (or worse!) drives.
$40 for a 512GB SATA SSD that'll blow the socks off whatever spinning drive you have.
https://www.microcenter.com/product/659868/inland-profession...
I do think my point still stands though. I don't think it's acceptable for software to run this slow, even on this. I'm talking windows has been idling for hours and basic tasks like clicking on the volume slider are sluggish.
On a side note: I'm fascinated HOW cheap SSD storage has become. Really looking into changing my backup drives to SSDs instead of good old spinning drives...
The time locked in update is undefined because the first time an update is available, Windows will never terminate downloading and unpacking it.