[astrodust]

You can turn those off, or ignore them. Either way.

Windows, by default, will kill your machine and reboot it to apply patches, will install them when shutting down, and generally goes out of its way to be as annoying as possible. You can turn this off, but it's a lot harder to disable all the update settings.

[mark_sz]

how "harder" is it on Windows?

[astrodust]

There's several options to disable, whereas on macOS there's basically one.

The other problem is some of the Windows options are pretty buried, that Control Panel is turning into a toxic waste dump.