Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat

[Scott van Looy]

Today Dotan Cohen did spake thusly:

> On 19/04/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 08:07 +0100, Scott van Looy wrote:
>> > For other issues:
>> >
>> > 1) reboot
>> 
>> Rarely needed on Linux, even for major configuration changes.  Needed
>> all the time with Windows, repeatedly, and a major waste of time.  A few
>> seconds of reconfiguring something on Linux becomes minutes on Windows.
>
> Last semester in my physics course, right in the middle of a lecture,
> the professor's computer informed us that we had 4 minutes until
> reboot, due to updates that had automatically been downloaded and
> installed. He had to stop the lecture, reboot, and then find his
> place. During this time I took the opportunity to mention how
> rediculous that is, without mentioning that I don't use windows, and I
> was told that I'm stupid for not updating my own computer regularly.
> Apparently, reboots in the middle of work are common parts of the
> windows workflow. Worse, people accept that because it's the only way
> to be 'safe'.

I've never seen Windows do that. What I have seen it do is say "Windows 
will be restarted in 4 minutes [cancel]"

Cancelling lets you do it later. Being smug about linux lets you earn 
lower marks ;)

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