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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Whether it's Mac or linux, any distro including ChromeOS, they are all the same in that they aren't Windows. Control-freak updates are a special Windows thing. . . .
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Earlier on, I mentioned that I liked booting into the Ubuntu partition on my netbook because Linux was so
quiet compared to Windows. Thank you, kacir and eschwartz, for confirming I'm not alone in that perception.
Another member mentioned that the balloons in XP were a thing of the past with Windows 7. I didn't want to monopolize the conversation by adding that I've got a machine running Windows 7 and it still nags me about updates and refuses to shut down until they're installed. That's after checking the box in the Control Panel that supposedly guarantees Windows won't install updates automatically. I realize there's a more comprehensive way to ensure that, but I haven't been looking into tailoring my Windows 7 experience as much as I do with Linux and OSX. And I hate the fact you have to buy a more expensive version of Windows to customize your moo-hanking desktop.
While it's possible to configure Windows 7 not to nag the user about updates or insist on them (imagine if that happened at companies running their own software, sites and patches -- companies that depend on the stability of a particular synergy), the mere fact that MS makes the process recondite for the ordinary user is an indication of why Ubuntu was such a relief to install and maintain.
On a similar subject: How easy is it to tell Chrome not to update? Android seems rather insistent about installing KitKat on my Nexus 7; is Chrome like that?