Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)

Re:Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003) by pas on Friday October 25, 2019 @08:20PM (#21360558)

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.

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Re:Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003) by potentialverand on Saturday October 26, 2019 @03:31AM (#21362284)

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...

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Re:Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003) by pas on Sunday October 27, 2019 @10:46AM (#21370010)

The restart is not the problem, the time it takes is. (And that it prompts rather aggressively to reboot.)

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Re:Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003) by MikusR on Saturday October 26, 2019 @06:41AM (#21362941)

They do require you to restart the application. Same with Windows, it updates in background and requires a relaunch.

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Re:Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003) by pas on Sunday October 27, 2019 @10:45AM (#21370002)

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 :/

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