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It's hilarious how terrible Windows updates feel compared to MacOS updates. Windows insists on making users stare at an endless blue screen while admonishing t
by politician 8y ago
It's hilarious how terrible Windows updates feel compared to MacOS updates.
Windows insists on making users stare at an endless blue screen while admonishing them "don't turn off your computer."
Meanwhile, MacOS completes the upgrades during boot up, and then has the courtesy to restore your apps - a trick that still makes me smile every time it happens. It probably takes about the same amount of time to apply the update, but feels much faster.
Update on shutdown is a bad policy. It's disruptive every time. Getting off the plane? Don't turn off your computer! Running late for an appointment? Don't turn off your computer! Going to sleep? Don't turn off your computer! Just lost power in a windstorm? Don't turn off your computer!
- wolco 8y agoOn non-laptops update on startup is worse. Shut down turn off and go do something else. Waiting 10 minutes to start is annoying.
- norswap 8y agoAs long as you actually do the update as they come along. I've had to upgrade a Mac that hadn't received any updates since 2 or 3 years - it's a disaster, the app store barely even works anymore. Otherwise I pretty much agree.
- thirdsun 8y agoCounterpoint: Booting my Mac is when I'm going to work on something and seeing delays due to an pending update feels like an inconvenience. Shutdown is the time to do those tasks that block me from using my computer. I'm sitting at my Mac right now and see an update notification popup in the upper right corner - it has been nagging me for days and every time it returns I wish it would remind me on shutdown when I don't intend to use my computer for a while. I click on on "try again tomorrow" although I know that there's no way I'll interrupt my work when the notification returns the next day. This continues until I actually remember to start the update instead of shutting down my Mac.