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Originally Posted by BWinmill
That Linux distribution is probably less than 6 months old. Windows 8.1 is over a year and a half old, and Windows 7 is over five and a half years old. Of course Linux is going to have fewer updates to deal with, so it's hardly fair to place the blame on Windows.
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I'd argue that the fact that there ARE recently updated Linux distros to install, while Windows requires patching a years-old base image, is reason enough to place the blame on Windows.
But also, Linux seems to tend toward updating packages with the latest versions, and the package managers seem to know what dependencies need to be changed the first pass through.
Windows tends to stack update upon update (cumulative rollups and SPs are few and far between.)
I doubt the difference in age accounts for most of that time difference.