Oh god

Oh man! The games on that sight bring back jr. high in a big way.

Barrack and Power Pete!

That would be a hell of a trip down memory lane.

Do you know if any of them have Oscar in the trash can?

Microsoft at least lets you bypass

You don't own your Mac, Apple does.

OSTree mfs: let us introduce ourselves

The process is simple:

1. Patch Tuesday happens, updates are rolled out.
2. Within 0-4 days (or therabouts) of a Patch Tuesday, updates hit your device.
3. Everything is happening 100% in the background at this point. Updates are getting prepped for installation.
4. If you haven't rebooted to apply the updates for about 4-7 days, you'll start getting notifications that you should
5. If you have Active Hours set up, the OS will not bother you while these are active.
6. After something like 10-14 days you might be forced to apply the updates.

To each their own, but I wouldn't call this "disrespecting the user". And "forcing updates at an inconvenient time" is just silly, with how much leeway you're getting.

Also: maybe you're used to something much faster, but, personally, I don't find clicking "update and shutdown" when I go to sleep and then coming back to an updated PC in the morning that problematic. The longest I had to sit through the updates was 20 minutes because I wanted to apply a Feature Update.

I guess my point is: there's A LOT to bash Microsoft and Windows for. No need to invent things that aren't there.

If they're using WUfB or Autopatch, it should be happening once a month, some time after the Patch Tuesday (depending on internal policy).

If they're just grabbing whatever Microsoft publishes (like "civilian" gear), you should be getting one update a couple of days after Patch Tuesday.

There might be a second update, if it's a critical fix, some time after the first, but that's super rare these days.

If your corpo laptop updates non-stop, talk to your IT, it's not normal.

You forget the other side of the coin with using a rolling distro like Arch - you more or less have to keep updating the system a couple of times per week, especially if you want to be able to install new packages with a lot of dependencies.

Not saying I personally have any problems with it, but it's worth mentioning when talking about how quick and easy it is to update the system (which it truly is)... ;-)

And yet the meme goes "not again!" about Windows, not Linux...

I kind of agree with you, with a caveat - I think people coming from Linux or Mac see Windows, and start poking around trying to make it do things that Linux or Mac do. And when that breaks the OS or is just not possible, they call the "Windows bad" card.

But here's the thing - I gave my 80 year old mother a Windows laptop. She uses it to check her email, read the news and watch YouTube.

It's a breeze. Everything just works, the OS updates itself automagically when she's not looking, the photos from her phone magically appear in her Photos application on the laptop (by way of OneDrive), if she needs to switch to a newer laptop, all the bookmarks and files are already there when she logs in, because of MS Account/OneDrive/Edge profile, etc.

I love Linux, I have it on my gaming PC just to stick it to MS, but I would never think of giving my mother a Linux device because I know shit would break, or get weird, or just require attention from someone who understands how sudo works. On Windows she has a regular user account (there's a separate admin account she can't remember the password for so I always know when something requires it because she calls me - it's around once a year at most), has no knowledge of anything other than "click swirly blue icon to browse funny YouTube videos or check email", and... everything just works.

That would likely be the default settings trying to avoid times when you normally use the machine to install the update.

Yeah, I know - that's why I said "after Patch Tuesday". It usually happens between 0 and 4 days after PT, depending on which "ring" your device is on.

I don't know when's the last time you used Windows, but I use it daily (for work), and these days the update process looks like this:

1. Within 2-4 days of a Patch Tuesday when I'm packing up to go home from work I notice that the "Shutdown" button now says "Update and Shutdown".
2. I click that button, go to the kitchen to drop off the dishes I used during the day.
3. I come back, the laptop's off, I pack up and go home.

How is Linux less annoying than this?

No problem! :)

Linux is free...

It's fun?