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To be completely fair, a competent Linux enterprise desktop team would force regular kernel and package updates on the users, too. Keeping up to date is crucial to network security and y’all have all kinds of juicy stuff on your work machines, regardless of the underlying operating system.
It’s not the concept of updating that’s the problem; it’s that Windows’s process gets in the way of your work and doesn’t make its status clear. You can be stuck on 90% for thirty minutes, and all you can do is wait with fingers crosses.
When updating on Linux, it’s usually dead clear what it’s updating and very forthcoming about any errors that have come up. Also, I can usually still at least check my e-mail while updating my Linux packages, if not most of what I usually do, and just restart when it’s convenient.
I didn’t take into account this nuance. I agree.
In MS defense, I haven’t seen a blue screen for at least 8 years, maybe longer.
Back in the XP days, it was constant.
As someone who works at a help desk, the main “blue screen” I see these days is the computer asking for a Bitlocker key after an update, upon which I have to direct them through their Microsoft account.
I’ve also seen my fair share of crapped out installs that just needed a reinstall, as well as the occasional issue with Realtek 8852.
