Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat

[Scott van Looy]

Today Anne Wilson did spake thusly:

> On Thursday 19 April 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> On 19/04/07, Scott van Looy <scott at ethosuk.org.uk> wrote:
>>> Today Dotan Cohen did spake thusly:
>>>> 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 ;)
>>
>> No cancel button. I even have a screenshot of it doing that to _me_
>> once: about a week before I moved over to Linux for good. I'll gladly
>> send you the screenshot. It's in Hebrew, but you can clearly see there
>> is no Cancel button. And I find it hard to believe that Windows in
>> English has a cancel button when Hebrew does not.
>>
> Dotan, my laptop dual-boots with XP.  I have that set up to notify me of
> updates, but not install.  I do recall seeing, however, that you can elect to
> download updates automatically and install later, though I've never tried
> that, since I like to read the description of the updates before letting them
> loose :-)

Aye. Equally, by default, automatic updates are set to happen at 3am, and 
if you've not saved your work before going to bed then you're a bit silly 
;)

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