While Windows updates, let me write a quick post.

One thing I hate about Windows is updating things. Every single time some system file is modified or something big changes, you have to reboot your computer. This is a pain. I don’t like rebooting my computer. There’s no real reason that it shouldn’t just run for ever and ever.

Now, admittedly I used to be one of those people that just accepted that Windows will, by the nature of the beast, just have to be restarted every few days or so. Then I installed Ubuntu at home and (even with pre-stable Beryl running) I have had two months of uptime, only interrupted by a power outage. Two months! That’s unheard-of in Windows Desktop Computing Land.

Windows isn’t that unstable anymore, I guess. It’s just the damn updates. All the time. I mean, I thought these things were supposed to be released on “Patch Tuesday” or something?

It’s like Microsoft said, “Oh, okay, you people want security? We’ll give you security!” and then went on to punish us for wanting security with their implementation. If this stuff hasn’t been made better by the time I absolutely must install Vista, I’m going to get a little angry.

It’s like this, see? If Ubuntu, a Linux distribution that is supposedly “not ready for the desktop” according to the shrill cries of Windows and Mac fans, can manage to do every single little update (excepting upgrading the kernel itself) without restarting anything, why can’t Windows?

Come on, Microsoft. You’ve been trying to make a desktop operating system for something like 15 years now and this is what you give me? I’m sick and tired of this crap. I am forced by the software ecosystem in this country to run Windows. I expect better.

Tags: geekery, opinions, rants, Ubuntu