Re: I've thought better of Linux

cstacy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Christopher C. Stacy) writes:
>
> My experience on Windows is that when more updates (for either the OS,
> or for the well-integrated Norton security) are needed, icons appear
> in the tray, I click on them, and then sometimes afterwards it tells
> me to reboot. Totally painless.

[snip]

> If I were Joe Luser, or his mother, on Linux, there is absolutely no
> chance that I would figure it out. Windows is infinitely superior to
> Linux in that way.

Ummm...security updates are that easy with Red Hat. And on Fedora it's
a simple 'yum update'. Which reminds me...

And of course a reboot is never required.

> When you are installing OS patches, is rebooting a big deal?

Yeah, because on a single-user machine one may have quite a lot of
state: open web-pages, half-completed projects; chat sessions. Yes,
with better OSes this wouldn't matter: all state would be constantly
saved, and a reboot (or power outage, for that matter) would just reload
the kernel and restore the state. But we don't have those better OSes;
we're stuck with Windows & Unix; and thus rebooting is a hassle.

And of course in a production environment rebooting means interrupting
production. Yeah, it'd be nice to have clusters and thus not need to
worry about it. But, again, we don't live in a perfect world.

--
Robert Uhl <http://public.xdi.org/=ruhl>
An environment that puts women unwillingly at the disposal of men is
never an argument for equality. It is quite vividly the opposite.
--Kathleen Parker
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