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Microsoft's approach to updates has always been a criminal waste of their users resources, particularly their time.

• collyw 8y ago
  True. I have had Windows machines from work which I install Linux on as a dual boot. I need to use Windows maybe two or three times a year, and it can take hours for software updates to install when I do log in.
  • tatersolid 8y ago
    apt-get dist-upgrade takes several hours on my Linux partition, which I also boot just a few times per year. Ubuntu also completely blows itself up into an unbootable state at least once a year after updates. Windows Update and testing suck, but Linux package management and upgrading suck just as badly. Systemd upgrade bugs seem to cause the most un-bootable systems in my experience, with alarming frequency, even on LTS servers that see little churn.
    • pas 8y ago
      sorry to hear that, I did the last 4-5 ubuntu updates on a dual boot (win + ununtu) box, and it went smooth most of the time. but it takes about an hour. if apt finished it always rebooted. (nvidia drivers requres some manual work initially, but it was basically setting up the right repository and installing newer packages from time to time) and on servers (20+ VMs and a few hypervisors, some LTS some not) I had even fewer problems. for me things got especially smooth sailing after ubuntu switched to systemd.