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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
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 out 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 feel inclined to continue the conversation by mentioning that I've got a machine running Windows 7 and it does the same thing.
While it's possible to configure Windows 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?
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I think most of you are comparing apples and oranges. What takes 30 minutes on a 5-year-old PC often takes less than a minute on a new PC. I never had to wait on any update on my latest PC. And with Windows 8 even a complete reboot is just a matter of seconds. MS has also learned to group updates. And the first time you get a new PC you get to decide update behaviour (can be easily changed later, of course).