Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 4/19/07, Scott van Looy <scott at ethosuk.org.uk> wrote:
> 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]"

On more than one occasion, I have hit Cancel, only to have Windows
restart - luckily, I don't trust it with much of my data anyways.


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