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.
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.
Yeah, but with immutable desktops it’s just rebooting at your convenience and be done. Rolled that out for a few customers in the past two years.
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.