[masklinn]

Anecdotally:

* Windows's reboot nag screen is way more insistent and naggy, OSX just has a notification in a corner going "there are updates available", Windows has a big dialog front and center, which comes back frequently

* Windows updates requiring reboots are significantly more frequent than OSX's

* Windows will eventually refuse to put things off and reboot on its own, IME OSX won't

* The Windows update process takes ages, and there's literally nothing you can do with the machine during it

Having both Windows ans OSX personal machines, updates to the Windows one annoy me much more than OSX's. Though to be fair the W10 experience is still a significant improvement over the XP and W7 days (I haven't had an update repeatedly fail yet).

[bionoid]

> Though to be fair the W10 experience is still a significant improvement over the XP and W7 days (I haven't had an update repeatedly fail yet).

I am on the other side of that fence, managing about 100 machines across all versions W7-W10 and Server 2008-2016.

Win7 boxes are by far the most stable desktops, in the past year I have had at least ten win10 systems blow up due to updates, stuck in and endless loop of installing at shutdown and reverting at startup. A few weeks ago two stock server 2016's with nothing but SQL Server installed outright died to a windows update (unbootable).

I am never upgrading my personal windows machines past windows 7.