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Originally Posted by Makaveli213  Windows gets updated every 2nd tuesday of the month. This is the cycle that they have done for a while now. It is jsut easier to roll them out all at once rather than roll out a update today and then another 2 tomorrow then another one the 3rd day. I use Ubuntu and at times find it very annoying that when i am working on something to get a update notice and have to restart in the middle of my work.
But you are right. Linux and Windows are 2 very different beasts. Plus if you are getting 100 updates a day. That is not saying much compared to getting 5 or 10 updates a month. Shows that there is more work to be done on the distro before it should be released rather than pushing it out and getting updates done on the fly.
But that is just my opinion. I am sure that with the 3rd party support with nonfree flash isntalled on the Linux box it could have been hacked jsut as easily as the Windows box since they went thru flash. |
Getting more updates doesn't necessarily dictate that you have a less superior operating system, but it definitely does show that there are people on the backbone working to secure it better. I don't really see how this is an arguable point, as I'm a heavy XP and Linux user (moreso XP considering my job) and I still far prefer Linux due to its robustness, security, features, usability, etc.
Oh, and you don't always have to restart RIGHT when the update goes through. I always let it sit there till I'm done, then I reboot. Oh, and Windows does the same thing, too. So, again, it's not a valid statement to hold against Linux only.