Re:Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)
by 8sleef on Friday October 25, 2019 @05:05PM
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Windows 7 with its constant mandatory automatic updates did it for me... Windows, never again, and I switched happily to Ubuntu.
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Chrome and Firefox auto updates too. But those are fast, done in the background and they don't require reboots.
Windows is still terrible at this.
Re:Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)
by potentialverand on Saturday October 26, 2019 @03:31AM
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I don't think updating an application is really comparable to updating an operating system. The OS is vastly more complex.
Nevertheless, Firefox on Linux via package manager definitely requires a restart. Typically I know when Firefox has been updated because I get a window saying "your browser needs to restart".
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/9s78fh/sick_of_get...
The restart is not the problem, the time it takes is. (And that it prompts rather aggressively to reboot.)
Re:Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)
by MikusR on Saturday October 26, 2019 @06:41AM
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They do require you to restart the application. Same with Windows, it updates in background and requires a relaunch.
I have no problem with the relaunch, but it takes a lot of time to do the actual update at relaunch time. So the launch time with update is at least a magnitude larger than it should be.
This coupled with the fact that Windows update is rather monolithical yet it should be simple to update most of the non-kernel parts without reboot leads to too many slow reboots :/