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Originally Posted by dickloraine
What have clueless users to do with the quality of an OS? Of course if you have a bigger user base, you have more clueless users. And windows tries to help them by making automatic updates the default.
I don't understand why regular updated are considered a bad thing from so many? If you don't use your computer in the internet, just disable them. If you do have a connection, of course you need to be up to date. And at least my windows 7 does not reboot automatically but asked to be rebooted.
I don't know if this would be that painless, but I did upgrade vista to 7 and did not need to reinstall any apps or anything else. It took just around one hour and was very easy. I hope upgrading to 10 will be as painless.
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There are a large group of users who just want to use the computer as a tool. And they want the tool to be unchanging (or only changing when they are ready for it to), because they don't want their carefully built reflexes to no longer work.
Newer is not better, merely different, in this day and age. Some times it's worse. Example, WIndows 7 no longer supported 16 bit Legacy applications. A clear design choice made by Microsoft. So? I have 16 bit Legacy programs I wanted to keep. I refured to scrap them, so I never upgraded. But that meant that when my hardware died, (or I wanted new hardware, I would be SOL. So I shifted to Linux. I can install any level of Mint I want, (as long as I keep the repositories - all the tested apps as well). And I virtualized my copy of XP, so i still have all my 16 bit Legacy programs (plus the virtual version boots like lightning).
So I'm not going back to the Microsoft world. I don't exist to feed the upgrade/subscription beasts. YMMV...