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Re:Both Windows 10 and Chrome OS are embracing the Linux kernel by smichel17 on Sunday May 12, 2019 @10:58AM (#19892279)
The pragmatic reason is the idealistic reason: control. It manifests itself in things like forced Windows updates, even if you're actually using the computer at the time.
Re:Both Windows 10 and Chrome OS are embracing the Linux kernel by overgard on Sunday May 12, 2019 @11:35AM (#19892514)
I wish that were enough, but even though having my computer restart when I don't want it to is annoying and microsoft's forced updates infuriate me, at the end of the day I use my computer to get work done and using linux would really make that a lot harder, unfortunately.
Re:Both Windows 10 and Chrome OS are embracing the Linux kernel by zvrba on Sunday May 12, 2019 @11:38AM (#19892532)
> even if you're actually using the computer at the time.

?? Windows 10 pops up a "schedule updates" dialog when there's an update to install. And when the time comes, I can still postpone it.

Re:Both Windows 10 and Chrome OS are embracing the Linux kernel by judge2020 on Sunday May 12, 2019 @11:13AM (#19892379)
The issue with updates is that they sometimes need to be installed during restart, but many people (that I know) never power cycle their computer and then complain that it asked them to restart the computer while they were using it.