I had a similar experience a few months ago. I run Windows 10 Professional on my iMac using Boot Camp for Windows specific stuff — hard to believe, but such thi

I had a similar experience a few months ago. I run Windows 10 Professional on my iMac using Boot Camp for Windows specific stuff — hard to believe, but such things do still exist in 2018. I was facing some slowness while working on something urgent, so I decided to go with the old standby — a reboot. To my dismay, I was greeed with a “Windows is updating — don’t power off” message which stuck around for more than an hour. The work I was doing was on the local drive and quite urgent. I ended up having to pull out my laptop and do the whole work from scratch while Windows was “updating”. I am sure there is a setting which could have prevented the machine from updating my machine in the background, but that is not the point. Why can I not be allowed to update/reboot on my own schedule by default instead of being forced into it unless I opt out? Why is it opt out instead of opt in? The fact that it is an opt out tells me that Microsoft actually knows that no one will actually opt into this madness by choice. And why was I not at least warned that my machine is going into a self induced coma which would leave it unusable for more than an hour when I tried to reboot? And let us not even forget about the adware that gets installed with every major upgrade. I bought the Windows license for the full price — surely I deserve a break from this nonsense? Behaviour like this is the reason I prefer macOS for serious work — despite its problems. Linux, while good on server side, is just not polished enough to be my daily driver on the client. A few (~4-5) years ago, I used to run Linux on my main work a laptop - a Lenovo. But I ended up having to act the sysadmin way too frequently for my liking. Touchpad going dead randomly (won’t come back without reboots), battery life going from decent to horrible after certain updates, overheating at times for no obvious reason, not so great media playback, trouble with sound and Bluetooth etc were some of the common problems. I fixed many of them, but every update brought its own share of headaches until I decided it just wasn’t worth my time. And I am saying this as someone who makes a living working on Linux on the server side. I can’t imagine an average Joe going to the lengths I did to fix the boatload of issues that come bundled with Linux. Eventually, I ended up buying a Mac for my daily driver. While I can’t say everything has been completely smooth, it has been relatively headache free. I still run Linux on EC2 for my Linux needs, but I don’t see myself going back to it on the client side in the near future. With macOS, I get the UNIX like interface with a decent GUI and hardware support.