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2701 What irks me: When I open Word or Excel or PowerPoint because I actually want to do something in one of those programs, and before I can even manage to open the file I want to mess with, Microsoft Auto-Updater pops up complaining that MS Office is out of date and there's a critical update available and you should install it and oh by the way you have to close down the program you actually want to run while the update is installing.
It's almost as bad as when I had to boot up into Windoze every week a couple years ago to do webconferences, and the stupid OS would install updates it had already downloaded while the computer was in the process of booting, causing the bootup process on any particular day to take an unpredicatable amount of time, which caused me to occasionally show up late to the webconference.
At least OSX and Linux (the distros I've used, at least) have the sense to install OS updates when the computer is shutting down, when I'd just be going to bed anyway. OSX even gives me the option of not installing the update on any particular shutdown, which is nice.
It's almost as bad as when I had to boot up into Windoze every week a couple years ago to do webconferences, and the stupid OS would install updates it had already downloaded while the computer was in the process of booting, causing the bootup process on any particular day to take an unpredicatable amount of time, which caused me to occasionally show up late to the webconference.
At least OSX and Linux (the distros I've used, at least) have the sense to install OS updates when the computer is shutting down, when I'd just be going to bed anyway. OSX even gives me the option of not installing the update on any particular shutdown, which is nice.
2702 windows also updates during shutdown however it "configures" updates during boot.
Ubuntu gives you an icon in the launcher (task bar for windows users) and clicking this gives a nice list with programs that gets updates. It also shows how important this update is and reminds you if there is no charger plugged in.
Oh, fun fact Windows can update during use, however for some reason this feature is pretty much hidden.
Some other thing that makes Linux updates more bearable then windows updates (and I suspect the same is at least somewhat true to mac os). You don't need to install all the updates, well technically you do but going from lets say kernel 3 to kernel 3.2 only takes 1 time clicking on update but on windows you would first need to update to kernel 3.1 before you can even have the os download 3.2.
Ubuntu gives you an icon in the launcher (task bar for windows users) and clicking this gives a nice list with programs that gets updates. It also shows how important this update is and reminds you if there is no charger plugged in.
Oh, fun fact Windows can update during use, however for some reason this feature is pretty much hidden.
Some other thing that makes Linux updates more bearable then windows updates (and I suspect the same is at least somewhat true to mac os). You don't need to install all the updates, well technically you do but going from lets say kernel 3 to kernel 3.2 only takes 1 time clicking on update but on windows you would first need to update to kernel 3.1 before you can even have the os download 3.2.
2703 I guess my Mac does take a bit longer to boot after I've just had it install an update, but maybe fifteen or thirty seconds longer at most. Not like Windoze, which, in my experience, can take minutes...
2704, windows is a mess, but they are working on a system where a single update will handle all currently missed updates, so a single update will work. It launched recently, and they are slowly backdating it to all previously released windows updates for 7, 8, 8.1, and 10.