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Originally Posted by eschwartz

Enlightenment:

linux is all about what you want. It will never attempt to download updates unless you specifically tell it to. You have the choice to configure scheduled updates.
linux will never demand anything of you. linux will offer suggestions if you ask it to, and is perfectly content without fussing, whatever you choose.

If you do schedule updates to happen on their own, it does not interrupt your work. It does not require rebooting either. I can count the number of times where a linux update, scheduled or manual, caused me consternation, on the fingers of, um, zero hands.



And that is exactly what linux doesn't do. EVER.
Even when you choose to reboot, it always starts up again immediately.



You are entirely correct that I am a linux user. What is your point?



You mentioned subscriptions in the middle of a discussion about Windows itself. I assumed you were talking about Windows itself as a subscription. Innocent confusion.

You then dismissed everything I said on the grounds that: "Of course you are a Linux person from what I gather so not expected to be up to date on Microsoft[...]".

Implying that since I am a linux person, I fundamentally cannot have any idea what you were talking about.

Note: I am assuming that you must have meant something with that statement, therefore you must have meant this.
From the context of my previous comments, I clearly know more than a bit, or at least think I do .

A decision tree: either I

1. know what I am talking about when it comes to Windows/MS.
2. don't know what I am talking about when it comes to Windows/MS, and cheerfully admit it.
3. don't know what I am talking about when it comes to Windows/MS, and make embarrassing comments that show my pretend knowledge.

I am clearly not #2.
You assumed based on my status as a linux person that I am not #1 either.
Thus you must be assuming #3.



There was absolutely no need whatsoever, regardless of any other factor or topic of discussion that came up now or then or anywhere in between, to hypothesize about my familiarity with MS/Windows, as it certainly did not advance the conversation at the time.

That you made that entirely unnecessary comment anyway, came across entirely the wrong way.

I think you are overly sensitive. I did not mean to imply you know nothing about Windows, just that you are not overly fond of Windows. Perhaps you have even called it Windoze? If I am completely wrong, I apologise.

I just don't understand your hostility on this.

Helen