| Windows is far more painful. Firstly, it'll keep prompting even if you choose "restart later". Secondly, unlike most linux environments, it doesn't perform the updates which take effect next restart, it actually performs the update next restart. That means if you find yourself needing to restart forgetting you've updated, you can find yourself suddenly having to wait a very long time before your computer is usable again. They often take multiple 'restarts' to apply, typically you might have to wait the first shutdown, then when it boots back up it'll be "applying updates", then it'll restart again having done those updates. Occasionally you'll even get a third restart. That's compared to 'nix applying the updates but them not having taken effect until a restart which isn't normally noticeably slower than any other restart. |