My dad used Linux on his older computer. It was a bit of a hassle for me, but probably because hardware was malfunctioning. I bought newer computer for him and

My dad used Linux on his older computer. It was a bit of a hassle for me, but probably because hardware was malfunctioning. I bought newer computer for him and installed Windows 10 on it after all the last-version-of-Windows marketing speak. It was not very smooth, but I thought that he must have time to switch. Some strange Windows quirks aside the update mechanism filled disk completely. At that time my dad wanted to have Linux back, because it may have been not entirely smooth, but it was reliable. Windows was trying to update on each shutdown and boot-up and each time it failed, because of lack of space. Every time it took around 10-20 minutes. My dad bought external HDD and moved all his media files to it to make more space. It did not help. So he went through restoring to defaults or however it is called. But of course more updates came. Now it is somehow broken again. When I will visit him this Christmas I will install Ubuntu on there. The best update mechanism is on ChromeOS. It is totally hassle free. I am working on a Linux distribution that would also have updates in this way. Two partitions for read-only rootfs. You get new image on the second partition and after restart bootloader tries to start the newer image. If it fails system will be booted-up from the previous image.