What I never got an answer to is how Windows users cope with the abysmally long update times and reboot/update/reboot cycles. Just the process to check for upda

What I never got an answer to is how Windows users cope with the abysmally long update times and reboot/update/reboot cycles. Just the process to check for updates takes ages on most machines, regardless of RAM or SSD. On Linux (Debian, Arch, Fedora) or FreeBSD this is just a matter of a couple minutes, applying the upgrade included. This is one of the huge advantages which, if we can show it to Windows users, they might get more envious and ready to try an Ubuntu release. I do understand Microsoft's insistence to allow removing particular upgrades selectively, and that might be used as an argument for the inefficient update system, but if you do that, it's just as easy to leave a broken Windows, so I don't buy it. If Microsoft could at least take some hints from Apple, where you have always just one latest version of a component, it might be step forward. As it stands, you'll have 4 MSVC runtimes, 3 .Net runtimes, and so on, all complicating matters. A little streamlining of their components with an improved update software implementation should do wonders. That said, I'd love read more about this from someone who knows Windows deeper than me, because I cannot believe MS so ignorant of the abysmal update times.