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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Sounds like you've just been unlucky with Windows. I've never had any major glitches, BSODs, refusals to boot etc. in all the years I've used it, on various laptops, low-end and high-end. Neither have I ever had to reinstall it. And I'm not the type of user who only uses their PC for internet and e-mail and leaves everything else as is. I've busily installed/uninstalled programs, changed various registry entries and so on. Perhaps I've just been uncommonly lucky.
Windows updates have never taken particularly long either, certainly a lot less than 40 minutes.
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That's basically all my wife does with her computers, except she needs them for her Power Point presentations for the classes she teaches. I think most of the issues on the laptop come from the "Home Premium" version of Windows 10 that came with the laptop. One of these days I'll rebuild it using Windows 10 Pro.
As for upgrades ... As far as I can remember they almost always require at least one reboot. And you get the "don't shut your computer down" messages. Then there's the anti-virus and malware maintenance (unnecessary on Linux.) I do run ClamAV to make sure I haven't picked up any viruses that (though they won't effect me) can be passed on to Windows users. So far I've never had any.