[datenyan]

> Yes, and the result was a billions of billions of combinations of those updates.

I was recently talking to a colleague about this, and it was remarkable to me how "quickly" they had forgotten the hell of having Windows Update filled with 1 billion 10kb updates.

[wtallis]

A billion tiny updates seems to work reasonably well for most major Linux distros.

[phatfish]

Indeed, dnf (and other tools as reliable) are impressive. Never had an issue running a "sudo dnf update" even on a desktop with a decent amount of packages.

Once i had to fix a conflict during a Fedora version update. Apart from that it has been rock solid.

Windows 2019 cumulative updates are not bad, but 2016 is cursed. Be ready to put aside at least 90 mins for older 2016 installs, and cross your fingers it doesn't fail.

[justsomehnguy]

"Major linux distros" are mostly running on the servers in the headless mode, with most of the updates never even bothering the end-users.

"Major Windows distro" has video, sound, peripheral, network drivers; user software which is not a part of the operating system updates, VisualC redistributables, .NET version and it runs on anything from $100 10 years old system which is not even officially supported[0] to the latest $$$$ laptops, which still has shitty drivers because anyone capable of writing a good driver is not working in Intel or Broadcom, or retired for 10 years already.

Comparing Linux and Windows update models is... quite a futile endeavour, they are different.

[0] but billg is still blamed for the BSODs despite that

[xcv123]

Linux runs on everything from a toaster to a supercomputer. No excuses.

[Vox_Leone]

Three cheers for Puppy Linux!

[LightHugger]

Worked great though, w7 was the best, most stable version of windows and it worked this way